Rejection sensitivity is a bias toward expecting rejection that can result from negative social experiences and degrade emotional adjustment. In this study, rejection sensitivity was expected to predict patterns of adolescent social anxiety over 5 years when considered alongside other known or expected risk and protective factors: peer rejection (peer-reported), emotion dysregulation, self-worth, temperament (parent-reported), female gender, and grade. Participants were 377 Australian students (45% boys; 79% White, 15% Asian) aged 10 to 13 years (M = 12.0, SD = .90) and their parents (84%) who completed seven repeated surveys across 5 years. In an unconditional latent growth model, social anxiety symptoms had a significant quadratic pattern of growth, with symptoms increasing about midway into the study when adolescents were age 14, on average. In a model with all predictors, rejection sensitivity was uniquely associated with a higher intercept and a more pronounced quadratic growth pattern of social anxiety symptoms. Other predictors of growth in symptoms were the temperamental trait of negativity affectivity and emotion dysregulation; negative affectivity was associated with a higher intercept and a more pronounced quadratic pattern, and emotion dysregulation was associated with a higher intercept and a less pronounced quadratic pattern. Gender was associated with the intercept, with girls higher in symptoms than boys.

拒绝敏感性是指期望被拒绝的一种偏见，这可能是由于负面的社会经历而导致的，并降低了情绪调节的能力。在这项研究中，与其他已知或预期的风险和保护因素（同龄人拒绝（同龄人报告），情绪失调，自我价值，气质（父母报告）一起考虑）一起使用时，预期排斥敏感性可以预测5年内青少年社交焦虑的模式。 ），女性性别和年级。参加调查的是10至13岁的377名澳大利亚学生（男生占45％；白人占79％，亚裔占15％）（M = 12.0，SD= 0.90）和他们的父母（84％），他们在5年内完成了7次重复调查。在无条件的潜在生长模型中，社交焦虑症状具有明显的二次增长模式，平均在14岁左右的青少年中，该症状就在研究中途出现。在具有所有预测因素的模型中，拒绝敏感性与社交焦虑症状的较高拦截率和更显着的二次增长模式具有独特的关联。症状增长的其他预测因素是消极情感和情绪失调的气质特征。负面情感与较高的截距和更明显的二次模式相关，而情绪失调则与较高的截距和较不明显的二次模式相关。性别与拦截有关，