APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Perceived Social Support Is Associated with Current and Future Social Anxiety Symptoms in at-Risk Adults
- Jennifer Cunneen
UMD - Kalina Kalinova
University of Maryland - Samiha Islam
University of Pennsylvania - Allegra Anderson
Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University - Kathryn DeYoung
University of Maryland - Alexander Shackman
University of Maryland - Alexander Shackman
University of Maryland - Alexander Shackman
University of Maryland, College Park
Abstract
Social anxiety (SA) is common and challenging to treat. Cross-sectional work suggests that diminished social support promotes SA, but prospective-longitudinal research is scarce. Leveraging a racially diverse sample of at-risk adults, results demonstrate that low social support is associated with elevated SA and forecasts a worsening symptom trajectory.
Psychopathology
