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Connecting the Dots between Schizotypal Symptoms and Social Anxiety in Youth with an Extra X Chromosome: A Mediating Role for Catastrophizing

Brain sciences, 2017-09, Vol.7 (9), p.113 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright MDPI AG 2017 ;2017 by the authors. 2017 ;ISSN: 2076-3425 ;EISSN: 2076-3425 ;DOI: 10.3390/brainsci7090113 ;PMID: 28878159

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  • Title:
    Connecting the Dots between Schizotypal Symptoms and Social Anxiety in Youth with an Extra X Chromosome: A Mediating Role for Catastrophizing
  • Author: Miers, Anne C ; Ziermans, Tim ; van Rijn, Sophie
  • Subjects: Adolescents ; Anxieties ; Anxiety ; catastrophizing coping ; Children ; Children & youth ; Chromosomes ; Cognitive ability ; Klinefelter ; Mental disorders ; Rumination ; Schizophrenia ; schizotypal symptoms ; Shyness ; social anxiety symptoms ; Trisomy X ; X Chromosomes
  • Is Part Of: Brain sciences, 2017-09, Vol.7 (9), p.113
  • Description: Youth with an extra X chromosome (47, XXY & 47, XXX) display higher levels of schizotypal symptoms and social anxiety as compared to typically developing youth. It is likely that the extra X chromosome group is at-risk for clinical levels of schizotypy and social anxiety. Hence, this study investigated how schizotypal and social anxiety symptoms are related and mechanisms that may explain their association in a group of 38 children and adolescents with an extra X chromosome and a comparison group of 109 typically developing peers (8-19 years). Three cognitive coping strategies were investigated as potential mediators, rumination, catastrophizing, and other-blame. Moderated mediation analyses revealed that the relationship between schizotypal symptoms and social anxiety was mediated by catastrophizing coping in the extra X chromosome group but not in the comparison group. The results suggest that youth with an extra X chromosome with schizotypal symptoms could benefit from an intervention to weaken the tendency to catastrophize life events as a way of reducing the likelihood of social anxiety symptoms.
  • Publisher: Switzerland: MDPI AG
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 2076-3425
    EISSN: 2076-3425
    DOI: 10.3390/brainsci7090113
    PMID: 28878159
  • Source: PubMed Central
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