Question:
Social phobia tends to develop around which development period?
infancy
early to middle childhood
early to middle adolescence
early adulthood
Answer
early to middle adolescence
This can be defined or referred to as chronic mental health condition in which social interactions cause irrational anxiety which is again directly linked to fear, self-consciousness and embarrassment.
Explanation
According to study, social anxiety may be viewed as an ‘adolescent disorder’ where an age-of-onset data show that around 75% of more extreme and persistent forms of social anxiety have their onset by mid-adolescence with a median age of onset of 13 years (Gregory et al., 2007; Kessler et al., 2005a,b; Wittchen et al., 1999). Some of the features one can identify with such a stage include a paralyzing fear of negative evaluation from others and this is viewed as the period of vulnerability for the emergence of many psychiatric conditions.
