Anxious solitude/withdrawal and anxiety disorders: Conceptualization, co-occurrence, and peer processes leading toward and away from disorder in childhood

• Published in: New directions for child and adolescent development Vol. 2010; no. 127; pp. 67 - 78
• Main Author: Gazelle, Heidi
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Francisco Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 2010; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Anxiety Disorders; Child; Child Behavior - psychology; Childhood; Children; Depression (Psychology); Depression - complications; Environmental aspects; Environmental Influences; Humans; Interpersonal Relations; Interpersonal Relationship; Intervention; Peer Group; Peer Relationship; Psychopathology; Risk; Solitude; Symptoms; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Withdrawal (Psychology)
• ISSN: 1520-3247; 1534-8687
• DOI: 10.1002/cd.263

This chapter contains (1) an analysis of commonalities and differences in anxious solitude and social anxiety disorder, and a review of empirical investigations examining (2) correspondence among childhood anxious solitude and anxiety and mood diagnoses and (3) the relation between peer difficulties and temporal stability of anxious solitude and depressive symptoms. Findings support a diathesis‐stress model in which anxious solitude forecasts symptoms of psychopathology primarily in the context of interpersonal stress. Additionally, evidence for individual and environmental factors which moderate risk for peer difficulties among anxious solitary children is reviewed. Implications for intervention are discussed. © Wiley Periodicals, Inc.