Abstract:

In this research, it was examined that whether social anxiety can be predicted based on self-esteem and dysfunctional attitude or not. 339 university students, freshmen and sophomores took part in the research group. In the study three scales were used to collect data: LSAS, RSES and DAS. The results of multiple regression analysis which were based on data showed that there was a mid-level correlation between the subscales of RSES cooperatively and social anxiety scores. However, some of the subscales were significant predictors of social anxiety and some of the subscales, and especially the self-esteem subscale were not signif-icant predictors of social anxiety. The analysis of the results of DAS subscales showed that there was a low level correlation between FOTO-A subscale coope-ratively and social anxiety scores; however obtained, none of the subscales were a significant predictor of social anxiety.

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