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23-01-2022 | Empirical Research

Identifying Clusters of Adolescents Based on Their Daily-Life Social Withdrawal Experience

Auteurs: Eva Bamps, Ana Teixeira, Ginette Lafit, Robin Achterhof, Noëmi Hagemann, Karlijn S. F. M. Hermans, Anu P. Hiekkaranta, Aleksandra Lecei, Olivia J. Kirtley, Inez Myin-Germeys

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 5/2022

Abstract

Social withdrawal is often presented as overall negative, with a focus on loneliness and peer exclusion. However, social withdrawal is also a part of normative adolescent development, which indicates that groups of adolescents potentially experience social withdrawal differently from one another. This study investigated whether different groups of adolescents experienced social withdrawal in daily life as positive versus negative, using experience sampling data from a large-scale study on mental health in general population adolescents aged 11 to 20 (n = 1913, M_Age = 13.8, SD_Age = 1.9, 63% female) from the Flemish region in Belgium. Two social withdrawal clusters were identified using model-based cluster analysis: one cluster characterized by high levels of positive affect and one cluster characterized by high levels of negative affect, loneliness and exclusion. Logistic regression showed that boys had 66% decreased odds of belonging to the negative cluster. These results show that daily-life social withdrawal experiences are heterogeneous in adolescence, which strengthens the view that, both in research and clinical practice, social withdrawal should not be seen as necessarily maladaptive.

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Titel: Identifying Clusters of Adolescents Based on Their Daily-Life Social Withdrawal Experience
Auteurs: Eva Bamps
Ana Teixeira
Ginette Lafit
Robin Achterhof
Noëmi Hagemann
Karlijn S. F. M. Hermans
Anu P. Hiekkaranta
Aleksandra Lecei
Olivia J. Kirtley
Inez Myin-Germeys
Publicatiedatum: 23-01-2022
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 5/2022
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-021-01558-1

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