Self-Schemas, Anxiety, Somatic and Depressive Symptoms in Socially Withdrawn Children and Adolescents.

The article examines the hypothesis that negative self-schemas and a range of internalizing problems may be associated with social withdrawal in late childhood and early adolescence. The author used an in-school peer nominations from the Revised Class Play wherein 132 eleven-to-thirteen-year-old children were classified as withdrawn, aggressive or normative control. The self-referent rating task and Youth Self-Report completed the participating children revealed that socially withdrawn children or adolescents have higher levels of internalizing problems including shy or withdrawn behaviors, anxiety, depressive symptoms, and somatic problems.