Features of Self-Regulation in Young Pople with High Social Anxiety

Abstract

The features of self-regulation of behavior and emotion management in the structure of emotional intelligence in 18‑22 year old young people with high anxiety (17 respondents) compared to young people with moderate social anxiety (18 respondents) were investigated. Respondents with high social anxiety have less flexibility in self-regulation of behavior and ability to manage emotions, but more programming of behavior. They do not note a decrease in understanding their own and other people’s emotions, which may indicate a connection of social anxiety with deficit in ability to trim behavior under specific conditions and decrease in adaptive strategies for regulating their own and other people’s affective states, or even an increase in attention to them, but not with reduced ability to understand the emotional component of communication