Abstract
This paper focused on social anxiety and how it affects adolescents, emerging adults, and families as a whole. Social anxiety is very common in families and people who use social networking technologies. Social anxiety is a form of anxiety that is brought out in social situations in which could be humiliation or embarrassment. Social anxiety has more of an onset in childhood and will follow them while they grow up to be an adult (Helping Social Anxiety In High School). In the “Familial Accumulation of Social Anxiety Symptoms and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation” study it is stated that SAD (Social Anxiety Disorder) is a frequent disorder found in children and is carried with them into adulthood (Ashbrand, Svaldi, Kramer, Breuninger, …show more content…
People who suffer from SAD tend to Fear and dread social situations even days or weeks in advance. Studies have shown that more than 35% of people who suffer from SAD experience the symptoms at least 10 years before the seek treatment. The cause of Social anxiety disorder can never really be narrowed down to one thing it is usually multiple factors at once all working together for example trauma, genetics, or family history with anxiety. Social anxiety affects more than 19 million people in America and is the third largest mental health disorder. SAD is a very common disorder (Helping Social Anxiety In High …show more content…
Their Hypothesis was “Maladaptive ER is also more prevelant in families that have anxious children” (Ashbrand et al,. 2016).Maladaptive ER strategies increase social anxiety in both mothers and children. “Mothers reporting Maladaptive ER may have difficulties supporting their child coping with social anxiety while simultaneously experiencing heightened levels of anxiety”( Ashbrand et al,. 2016). The Inception of the disorder usually occurs at a young age or in the adolescent years but the child will maintain the factors of SAD into their adults years. This study was made up by parents and children that were recruited through various advertisements. The symptoms of SAD were screened through an interview and they found 34 children that met the criteria for SAD and 28 children did not report and mental health history ( Healthy Controls, HC) 51 families agreed to the study (SAD: N=25, HC:
This paper focused on social anxiety and how it affects adolescents, emerging adults, and families as a whole. Social anxiety is very common in families and people who use social networking technologies. Social anxiety is a form of anxiety that is brought out in social situations in which could be humiliation or embarrassment. Social anxiety has more of an onset in childhood and will follow them while they grow up to be an adult (Helping Social Anxiety In High School). In the “Familial Accumulation of Social Anxiety Symptoms and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation” study it is stated that SAD (Social Anxiety Disorder) is a frequent disorder found in children and is carried with them into adulthood (Ashbrand, Svaldi, Kramer, Breuninger, …show more content…
People who suffer from SAD tend to Fear and dread social situations even days or weeks in advance. Studies have shown that more than 35% of people who suffer from SAD experience the symptoms at least 10 years before the seek treatment. The cause of Social anxiety disorder can never really be narrowed down to one thing it is usually multiple factors at once all working together for example trauma, genetics, or family history with anxiety. Social anxiety affects more than 19 million people in America and is the third largest mental health disorder. SAD is a very common disorder (Helping Social Anxiety In High …show more content…
Their Hypothesis was “Maladaptive ER is also more prevelant in families that have anxious children” (Ashbrand et al,. 2016).Maladaptive ER strategies increase social anxiety in both mothers and children. “Mothers reporting Maladaptive ER may have difficulties supporting their child coping with social anxiety while simultaneously experiencing heightened levels of anxiety”( Ashbrand et al,. 2016). The Inception of the disorder usually occurs at a young age or in the adolescent years but the child will maintain the factors of SAD into their adults years. This study was made up by parents and children that were recruited through various advertisements. The symptoms of SAD were screened through an interview and they found 34 children that met the criteria for SAD and 28 children did not report and mental health history ( Healthy Controls, HC) 51 families agreed to the study (SAD: N=25, HC: