SynthesisResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2023
Social Anxiety and Suicidality in Youth: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.
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30 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 39 citations in OpenAlex.
- The impact of family-related psychosocial factors on suicidal ideation among adolescents: a systematic review.BMC public health · 2026Pooled it
- Factors Associated with Suicidal Behavior in Adolescents: An Umbrella Review Using the Socio-Ecological Model.Community mental health journal · 2025Pooled it
- An Umbrella Review of Cognitive Behavioural and Dialectical Behavioural Therapies to Treat Self-Harm and Suicidal Behaviour in Adolescents.Actas espanolas de psiquiatria · 2024Pooled it
- The dynamic interplay between anxiety-related, psychotic, and suicidal experiences: a qualitative study.BMC psychiatry · 2025Trial
- Longitudinal Relationships between Three Types of Parental Psychological Control and Social Anxiety and the Mediating Role of Intolerance of Uncertainty in Middle Adolescents.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- Predicting six month follow-up of suicidal thoughts and attempts among youth with anxiety presenting to an emergency department.JCPP advances · 2026Article
- Distress Intolerance, Social Anxiety, and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Evidence from Random-Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel and Cross-Lagged Panel Network Analyses.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- The Relation Between Parenting Stress and Children's Social Anxiety in Chinese Family: The Roles of Maladaptive Parenting and FKBP5 Gene Variation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The Roles of Psychological Flexibility and Perceived Parental Emotional Support in Resilience and Social Anxiety Among College Students.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Negative social interpretation bias and suicidality: Indirect pathways through social anxiety and perceived burdensomeness.BMC psychology · 2026Article
- Bidirectional associations between parental-child alienation and social anxiety: a longitudinal study on the mediating role of interpersonal sensitivity.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- The Association Between Social Anxiety and Sleep Among Young People: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Review
- Dynamic Association between Stressful Life Events and Social Anxiety in University Students: Within-Person Longitudinal Mediation by Rumination.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2026Article
- All-cause and cause-specific mortality in social anxiety disorder: a matched cohort and sibling cohort study.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2026Article
- The role of social anxiety in suicidal risk among university students in Northern Morocco.BJPsych international · 2026Article
- Association between self-esteem and suicide risk in adolescents from five schools in northern Peru: A cross-sectional study.Global mental health (Cambridge, England) · 2026Article
- Fear of Negative Evaluation and Social Anxiety in Autism: A Case for Multi-method Assessment.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Assessment and management of suicidality in a mental health survey among poverty affected adolescents in Nepal.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Affective dynamics and emotional reactivity in social anxiety disorder.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
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Abstract
Suicide is a leading cause of death among young people every year. Identifying risk factors provides opportunities to intervene, and social anxiety may represent one such factor. This systematic review and meta-analysis aimed to review the evidence of associations between social anxiety and suicidality in youth (10-25 years). Embase, PsycInfo, and Medline were searched to identify relevant articles. Meta-analysis was conducted to examine the mean effect sizes of concurrent and prospective associations between social anxiety and three indices of suicidality in adolescents aged 10-25 years. Meta-analyses of 16 studies showed that social anxiety was associated cross-sectionally with suicide attempt (r = 0.10, 95% CI: 0.04, 0.15), suicidal ideation (r = 0.22, 95% CI: 0.02, 0.41), and suicide risk (r = 0.24, 95% CI: 0.05, 0.41), and prospectively at trend level with suicidal ideation (r = 0.62, 95% CI: -0.03, 0.90). An examination of the prospective associations with suicide attempt and risk was not possible due to a lack of studies. Several studies suggested that results could not be solely attributed to depressive symptoms. A high level of heterogeneity was observed in each meta-analysis. Moderation analysis was possible for gender and publication year only; neither was significant. Findings provide further evidence of a link between social anxiety and suicidal thoughts and behaviors in youth but are limited by the small number of studies of mixed quality. This review supports future research into social anxiety symptoms as potential risk factors and treatment targets for suicidal youth.
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