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<p>Anxiety symptoms are highly prevalent among youth and are closely linked to challenges across multiple life domains. However, limited attention has been given to youths’ subjective appraisals of developmentally salient life domains and how these domains may represent age-specific points of vulnerability in their associations with anxiety. Using data from a large sample of Chinese youth (<i>N</i> = 63,227; 10–24 years; 50.72% female; <i>M</i><sub>age</sub> = 15.94, <i>SD</i> = 3.53), the present study examined age differences in domain-specific life satisfaction (DLS) and its interconnections with anxiety symptoms. Participants were divided into four age groups: early adolescence (10–12 years), middle adolescence (13–15 years), late adolescence (16–18 years), and emerging adulthood (19–24 years). Network-based analyses were implemented within each age group to investigate the interconnections between anxiety symptoms and DLS and to identify the life domains most strongly associated with anxiety symptoms. Across age groups, youth reported consistently lower satisfaction in the domains of self, school, and living environment. Network analyses indicated that <i>self-satisfaction</i> exhibited the strongest direct associations with anxiety symptoms across all age groups. <i>Network control simulation</i> further showed that perturbations increasing <i>self-</i> and <i>school satisfaction</i> produced substantial reductions in anxiety and life dissatisfaction within the simulated network, with the effect of <i>school satisfaction</i> operating indirectly through <i>self-satisfaction</i>. These findings reveal age-specific vulnerability configurations within the anxiety–life satisfaction system and highlight the central role of self-evaluative processes and school-related experiences across adolescence and emerging adulthood. Although these findings reflect between-group differences and do not permit direct developmental inference, the observed patterns may capture both cohort-specific effects and developmentally structured variation across age groups.</p>

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Age Differences in the Interconnections between Domain-Specific Life Satisfaction and Anxiety Symptoms Across Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood: Network-Based Analyses

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    2026年5月18日

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  • Feng Li,
  • Ningning Huang,
  • Yuan Fang,
  • Zhiyan Chen

摘要

Anxiety symptoms are highly prevalent among youth and are closely linked to challenges across multiple life domains. However, limited attention has been given to youths’ subjective appraisals of developmentally salient life domains and how these domains may represent age-specific points of vulnerability in their associations with anxiety. Using data from a large sample of Chinese youth (N = 63,227; 10–24 years; 50.72% female; Mage = 15.94, SD = 3.53), the present study examined age differences in domain-specific life satisfaction (DLS) and its interconnections with anxiety symptoms. Participants were divided into four age groups: early adolescence (10–12 years), middle adolescence (13–15 years), late adolescence (16–18 years), and emerging adulthood (19–24 years). Network-based analyses were implemented within each age group to investigate the interconnections between anxiety symptoms and DLS and to identify the life domains most strongly associated with anxiety symptoms. Across age groups, youth reported consistently lower satisfaction in the domains of self, school, and living environment. Network analyses indicated that self-satisfaction exhibited the strongest direct associations with anxiety symptoms across all age groups. Network control simulation further showed that perturbations increasing self- and school satisfaction produced substantial reductions in anxiety and life dissatisfaction within the simulated network, with the effect of school satisfaction operating indirectly through self-satisfaction. These findings reveal age-specific vulnerability configurations within the anxiety–life satisfaction system and highlight the central role of self-evaluative processes and school-related experiences across adolescence and emerging adulthood. Although these findings reflect between-group differences and do not permit direct developmental inference, the observed patterns may capture both cohort-specific effects and developmentally structured variation across age groups.