The relationship between social anxiety and social support in adolescents: a test of competing causal models.: An article from: Adolescence

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From the author: This study compared the strength of competing causal models in explaining the relationship between perceived support, enacted support, and social anxiety in adolescents. The social causation hypothesis postulates that social support causes social anxiety, whereas the social selection hypothesis postulates that social anxiety causes social support. The reciprocal model combines the two hypotheses by arguing that the causal relationship between social support and social anxiety is largely reciprocal. This study tests a modification of the reciprocal model by specifying perceptions of support as a mediating construct. Two waves of data with an interval of three months were collected on 357 college students. Structural equation modeling was used to compare the reciprocal and mediated reciprocal causal models. The study found some support for the mediated reciprocal model, but the magnitude of the relationships were weaker than expected. Limitations and suggestion for future research are discussed.

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Title: The relationship between social anxiety and social support in adolescents: a test of competing causal models.
Author: Robert J. Calsyn
Publication:Adolescence (Magazine/Journal)
Date: March 22, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 40 Issue: 157 Page: 103(11)

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