| Social anxiety will not only damage the physical and mental health of young people,but also bring a lot of trouble to young people’s learning and life.Recently,many studies have investigated that the level of shyness could influence individual’s social anxiety.However,at present,there are rare studies referred to effect mechanism of level of shyness on individual’s social anxiety.The present study chose teenagers as subjects,planed from the emotion regulation view to explore the effect of level of shyness on teenager’s social anxiety.The study one chose teenagers(N=708,aged12-16)as subjects,used the Shyness scale,Liebowitz social anxiety scale and Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List,explored the relationship of teenager’s shyness level and social anxiety.The result found that there was a significant positive correlation between shyness level and social anxiety in teenagers.After controlling the demographic variables and life event variables about teenagers,teenager’s shyness level had predictive effect on social anxiety.The study two also chose teenagers(N=682,aged12-16)as subjects,adopted the Shyness scale,Liebowitz social anxiety scale and Emotion Regulation Questionnaire explored the relation of teenager’s shyness,social anxiety and emotional adjustment strategy.The result showed that there was a significantly positive correlation between social anxiety score and expressive suppression strategy using frequency,a significantly negative correlation between social anxiety score and cognitive reappraisal strategy using frequency.In addition,the cognitive reappraisal strategy of emotional adjustment strategy partly played a mediation role in teenager’s shyness total score and social intercourse,the expression suppression strategy of emotional adjustment strategy partly played a mediation role in teenager’s shyness total score and social anxiety total score and also played a mediation role between social anxiety and the two factors(subjective observation by others,talking in public site).The results investigated that adolescents’ shyness level had significantly predictive effect on social anxiety,cognitive reappraisal strategy partly played amediation role between shyness and social intercourse,expression suppression strategy partly played a mediation role between shyness and social anxiety and the two factors(subjective observation by others,talking in public site)of teenagers. |
