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The Social Ties That Bind: Social Anxiety and Academic Achievement Across the University Years
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Given that engagement and integration in university/college are considered key to successful academic achievement, the identifying features of social anxiety, including fear of negative evaluation and distress and avoidance of new or all social situations, may be particularly disadvantageous in the social and evaluative contexts that are integral to university/college life. Thus, the purpose of this study was to examine the direct effects of social anxiety on academic achievement, as well as investigate an indirect mechanism through which social anxiety might impact on academic achievement, namely, the formation of new social ties in university. The participants were 942 (71.7 % female; M = 19 years at Time 1) students enrolled in a mid-sized university in Southern Ontario, Canada. Students completed annual assessments of social anxiety, social ties, and academic achievement for three consecutive years. The results from an autoregressive cross-lag path analysis indicated that social anxiety had a significant and negative direct relationship with academic achievement. Moreover, the negative indirect effect of social anxiety on academic achievement through social ties was significant, as was the opposing direction of effects (i.e., the indirect effect of academic achievement on social anxiety through social ties). These findings highlight the critical role that social ties appear to play in successful academic outcomes and in alleviating the effects of social anxiety during university/college.
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“some researchers have suggested one underlying mechanism may be failure to seek support when students experience high levels of social anxiety at university (Arjanggi & Kusumaningsih, 2016; Brook & Willoughby, 2015; Zukerman et al., 2019).”
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“Higher rates of social anxiety in TD students has also been associated with poorer academic adjustment, and some researchers have suggested one underlying mechanism may be failure to seek support when students experience high levels of social anxiety at university (Arjanggi & Kusumaningsih, 2016; Brook & Willoughby, 2015; Zukerman et al., 2019).”
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“Additionally, social anxiety has also been related to a lack of social ties which in turn is associated with lower academic achievement in college students (Brook & Willoughby, 2015;Lasgaard et al., 2011)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brook, C. A., & Willoughby, T.
- Affiliations
- Brock University (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Brook, Christina A.
- Willoughby, Teena
- Venue
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence
- Published
- 2015-02-18
- Volume
- 44
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 1139-1152
- ISSN
- 0047-2891 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-6601
- OpenAlex
- W2012414170
- Cited by
- 183
- References
- 72
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 11.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Youth and Adolescence (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Education, Achievement, and Giftedness
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Student Stress and Coping
- Keywords
- social anxiety, academic performance, social ties, university students, social integration, fear of negative evaluation, social avoidance, student engagement
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety, Educational Status, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Social Behavior, Universities, Young Adult
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