The Role of Social Appearance Anxiety in Meta-cognitive Awareness of Adolescents
Year: 2014
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: .This study is aim to examine the relationship between social appearance anxiety of adolescents and metacognitive awareness. Social appearance anxiety was a negatively correlated with metacognitive awareness and its sub-constructs. As a result of regression analysis, the linear combination values of procedural information, of self evaluation and of explanative information significantly predicted social appearance anxiety. As it was found that the participants with high metacognitive awareness level had a low level of social appearance level. And also it was stated that adolescent participants ’ social anxiety level was varied significantly according to metacognitive level and gender. However, this variance was not seen as a result of the common effect of metacognitive awareness and of gender. Also it was indicated that the mean of male participants ’ social appearance anxiety level was high. Results were discussed in the light of literature.
Authors: Eyüp Çelik, Mehmet Emin Turan, Neslihan Arıcı
Institution: Sakarya University
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W1600108745