北京居民社会焦虑的现状及影响因素.pdfVIP

Advances in Psychology 心理学进展, 2017, 7(5), 629-640 Published Online May 2017 in Hans. /journal/ap /10.12677/ap.2017.75077 Social Anxiety and Its Influencing Factors of Residents in Beijing * Qian Xu, Meiying Zeng , Hongjun Yu, Hua Xu Department of Psychology, Teachers’ College of Beijing Union University, Beijing st th rd Received: May 1 , 2017; accepted: May 19 , 2017; published: May 23 , 2017 Abstract “Social anxiety” in sociology refers specially to the widely-spread mental states of tension in the whole society, namely a feeling of worry caused by the uncertainties in society (such as competi- tion, reform, and social insecurity). From the perspectives combining psychology and sociology, the present study adopted the self-designed social anxiety questionnaire and classical psycholog- ical scales including Self-Rating Anxiety Scale (SAS), and randomly surveyed 1093 residents in Beijing, of 18 to 63 years old, from various communities, to describe the current social anxiety level, sources of social anxiety, and influencing factors of social anxiety among Beijing residents. Results showed that: 1) the self-rated anxiety level of Beijing residents scores much higher than the norm of China; 2) social anxiety is evident in Beijing residents, among which the anxiety about environment and safety, survival anxiety are the most prominent sources; 3) social anxiety level is affected by a variety of demographic characteristics (such as gender and age), socio-economic characteristics (such as occupation, income, and housing), and physio-psychological characteris- tics (such as health, positive