Abstract
Social appearance concern is very important situation for all people’s life. Recently, this situation has revealed similar situations among university students. People exist in a social environment from people’s existence. For the fact that, people make an effort to impose themselves in their social environment and it is inevitable that the situation will cause anxiety. From this point of the view, in this study, the social appearance anxiety of the students studying at Karadeniz Technical University was investigated according to some variables. In this direction, a total of 176 students, 73 females and 103 males, from Karadeniz Technical University participated in the study. The Social Appearance Anxiety scale developed by Doğan (2010) was applied to the students participating in the study. The study is a descriptive and the -test one-way analysis of variance and correlation tests were used. According to the results of the findings obtained in the research, it was determined that the participants had a low level of social appearance anxiety. Besides, it was determined that difference between gender and class were significant. On the other hand, there were any significant difference was found in other variables.
Highlights
People make an effort to impose themselves in their social environment and it is inevitable that the situation will cause anxiety
When we look at the distribution of the scores of the participants from the Social Appearance Anxiety Scale, it is seen that the arithmetic mean of the scores of the students from the scale is 2.03, and the standard deviation is 0.90
The findings related to the gender, age, and class variables of social appearance anxiety of university students studying at Karadeniz Technical University were investigated, interpreted, and suggestion were made
Summary
For this reason, human wants to establish communication with other people in his environment. Human wants to establish communication with other people in his environment This situation reveals such factors as looking more attractive and. It is stated that the person has positive and negative body image. It is thought that looking attractive, the desire to communicate more with other people, and the appearance of people may cause anxiety in them. Social appearance anxiety is examined, and it is stated that it is a concept that includes more detailed features such as skin color and eye color, as well as height, weight, and muscular characteristics of the person (Hart et al, 2008). All these variables are effective in social appearance anxiety holistically
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