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

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. Th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of youth and adolescence 2022-05, Vol.51 (5), p.915-926
Hauptverfasser: Bamps, Eva, Teixeira, Ana, Lafit, Ginette, Achterhof, Robin, Hagemann, Noëmi, Hermans, Karlijn S. F. M., Hiekkaranta, Anu P., Lecei, Aleksandra, Kirtley, Olivia J., Myin-Germeys, Inez
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Zusammenfassung: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.
ISSN:0047-2891
1573-6601
DOI:10.1007/s10964-021-01558-1