Social versus non-social behavioral inhibition: Differential prediction from early childhood of long-term psychosocial outcomes

dc.contributor.authorTan, Enda
dc.contributor.authorZeytinoglu, Selin
dc.contributor.authorMorales, Santiago
dc.contributor.authorBuzzell, George A.
dc.contributor.authorAlmas, Alisa N.
dc.contributor.authorDegnan, Kathryn A.
dc.contributor.authorChronis-Tuscano, Andrea
dc.contributor.authorHenderson, Heather
dc.contributor.authorPine, Daniel S.
dc.contributor.authorFox, Nathan A.
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-09T17:10:00Z
dc.date.available2023-10-09T17:10:00Z
dc.date.issued2023-06-22
dc.description.abstractBehavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperamental style characterized by cautious and fearful behaviors in novel situations. The present multi-method, longitudinal study examined whether young children's observed and parent-reported BI in social versus non-social contexts predicts different long-term psychosocial outcomes. Participants (N = 279) were drawn from a longitudinal study of socioemotional development. BI in social contexts (“social BI”) was measured via children's observed wariness toward unfamiliar adults and peers at 24 and 36 months and parents’ reports of children's social fear/shyness at 24, 36, and 48 months. BI in non-social contexts (“non-social BI”) was measured via children's observed fearful responses to masks and novel toys, and parents’ reports of children's distress to non-social novelty at 9 months and non-social fear at 48 months. At 15 years, anxiety was assessed via adolescent- and parent-reports, and global internalizing and externalizing problems were assessed via parent-reports. Confirmatory factor analysis showed that a two-factor model fit the BI data significantly better than a single-factor model, providing evidence for the dissociation of BI in social versus non-social contexts. Social BI was uniquely associated with adolescent social anxiety, whereas non-social BI was specifically associated with adolescent separation anxiety. Neither social BI nor non-social BI predicted global internalizing and externalizing problems, providing evidence for the specific relations between BI and anxiety problems. Together, these results suggest that young children's inhibited responses in social versus non-social situations predict different subtypes of anxiety problems in adolescence, highlighting the multifaceted nature of BI and the divergent trajectories of different anxiety problems.
dc.description.urihttps://doi.org/10.1111/desc.13427
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/dspace/fan7-mgj3
dc.identifier.citationTan, E., Zeytinoglu, S., Morales, S., Buzzell, G. A., Almas, A. N., Degnan, K. A., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Henderson, H., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A. (2023). Social versus non-social behavioral inhibition: Differential prediction from early childhood of long-term psychosocial outcomes. Developmental Science, 00, e13427.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/30888
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherWiley
dc.relation.isAvailableAtCollege of Educationen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtHuman Development & Quantitative Methodologyen_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_us
dc.relation.isAvailableAtUniversity of Maryland (College Park, MD)en_us
dc.subjectanxiety
dc.subjectbehavioral inhibition
dc.subjectindividual differences
dc.subjectlongitudinal
dc.subjectsocial
dc.subjecttemperament
dc.titleSocial versus non-social behavioral inhibition: Differential prediction from early childhood of long-term psychosocial outcomes
dc.typeArticle
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