The relative research on rejection sensitivity, self-esteem, social support and social anxiety of teenagers

Abstract

Purposes: to explore the effect of rejection sensitivity, self-esteem and social support on social anxiety. Procedures: to use stratified cluster sampling, 349 sample data were collected by means of group measuring. Methods: to adopt psychological evaluation method, the tools included Tendency to Expect Rejection Scale, Self-esteem Scale, and Perceived Social Support Scale, and Social Anxiety Scale. Results: the gender and area differences are found in the analysis of social anxiety, social anxiety is positively related to rejection sensitivity, higher social anxiety indicates lower self-esteem and perceived social support, they are significant. Rejection sensitivity and self-esteem are the effectively predictive factors in the regression analysis of social anxiety. Conclusions: In order to lower social anxiety, the efforts may be made to lower the rejection sensitivity, improve self-esteem, give them more social support to keep psychological health, the teenagers who are female or from village should be concerned very much. © 2011 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.