Original articleImpact of Early Adolescent Anxiety Disorders on Self-Esteem Development From Adolescence to Young Adulthood
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Participants and study procedures
Data were drawn from the Children in the Community (CIC) study, based on a randomly sampled cohort of more than 800 families with at least one child between ages one to 10 residing in two upstate New York counties in 1975 [19]. The study sample comprises of one randomly selected child per family, and is demographically representative of children living in the northeastern United States at the time. The regions were selected for their similarities in racial distribution and socioeconomic status
Profile of sample
Self-esteem was measured in 756 of the 821 subjects during wave 2, 750 at wave 3, and 751 at wave 4. About 51% of the participants were male and 49% were female; more than 91% were white and about 9% of the subjects were black. More than 27% of all participants had at least one anxiety disorder, not distinguishing from other Axis I disorders. About 14% of all participants were reported to have at least overanxious disorder; about 5% have OCD; 11% have simple phobia; 8% reported social phobia;
Discussion
The present research investigated self-esteem development from adolescence through young adulthood using longitudinal data based on three waves of data collected from the CIC study. Our findings are consistent with the research [2], [7], [27], [28], indicating that self-esteem increases from adolescence through young adulthood. Those with any type of anxiety disorder have lower average self-esteem compared with the healthy group. Our results suggest that distinct anxiety disorders differ in
Acknowledgments
This study was supported by National Institute of Mental Health (MH-36971, MH-38914, MH-38916, and MH-49191). Dr. Chen's time was supported, in part, by University of South Florida Proposal Enhancement Grant No. 0090681.
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