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Social anxiety spectrum: gender differences in Italian high school students.
Full Abstract
Gender differences in the social anxiety spectrum and their correlation with other psychopathological features were analyzed in 520 students by using two questionnaires:
the Social Anxiety Spectrum Self-Report (SHY-SR), which explores social anxiety spectrum, and the General Spectrum Measure (GSM), which explores panic-agoraphobia, mood, obsessive-compulsive, and eating-behavior features. Mean SHY-SR total score was significantly higher in women than in men, and gender differences were particularly pronounced for interpersonal sensitivity domain. Likewise, GSM scores were higher in women, except for the manic section. The SHY-SR domains correlated significantly with all GSM sections, except for the manic section. In conclusion, women reported more symptoms than men (who belonged to different psychopathologic dimensions) and displayed a profile of social anxiety spectrum that differs quantitatively but not qualitatively from the men's profile. The correlation between social anxiety spectrum and other psychopathological features mirrors previous findings concerning the high comorbidity of axis-I social anxiety disorder.
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Author information
Author/s: Dell'Osso, Liliana (L); Saettoni, Marco (M); Papasogli, Alessandra (A); Rucci, Paola (P); Ciapparelli, Antonio (A); Di Poggio, Adolfo Bandettini (AB); Ducci, Francesca (F); Hardoy, Carolina (C); Cassano, Giovanni Battista (GB);
Affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Neurobiology, Pharmacology, and Biotechnologies, University of Pisa, Italy. ldelloss(-atsign-)med.unipi.it
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article
Journal: The Journal of nervous and mental disease (J Nerv Ment Dis), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2002-Apr; vol 190 (issue 4) : pp 225-32
Dates: Created 2002/04/17; Completed 2002/05/07; Revised 2004/11/17;
PMID: 11960083, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
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