Abstract:

The main objective of this study is to study the relationship between the levels of cognitive distortion and the levels of social anxiety of university students in terms of the various variables related to the family. The research was conducted on 298 university students who studied at different faculties at Atatürk University, the Hundred Years University and Artvin Çoruh University. The study used the "Socially Anxiety Scale", the "Related Intellectual Disruptions Scale" and the "Personal Information Form" to obtain data. On the data obtained in the study, correlation analysis, multiple regression analysis and t test were performed. The study found that the subdimensions of relations-related cognitive distortions are positive meaningful relationships between mind reading, unrealistic relationship expectations and social escape, the fear of being criticized and the feeling of individual invaluation, the subdimensions of proximity and social anxiety. However, from the lower dimensions of cognitive distortions to the avoidance of proximity and the unrealistic expectation of relationship, the fear of being criticized of social anxiety and the feeling of individual invalidity has been achieved to the conclusion that the lower dimensions of social escape are only the lower dimensions of avoidance of proximity. There are also meaningful differences between the social escape and the individual sense of invaluation, which are the underdimensions of social concern according to the mother's relationship they perceive, and there are meaningful differences in all underdimensions of social concern according to the father's relationship, whereas there is no meaningful differences according to the variable of the brother's relationship they perceive.