The Illusion Of Transparency Of High And Low Social Anxiety Of College Students And Its Impact On Social Anxiety

When people associated with others, individuals often wish to conceal their internal states.But, how well can people conceal their internal states, and how well do they believe they can do so?Research suggests that individuals are typically better at disguising their internal states than they believe, people are prone to an illusion of transparency, or a belief that their thoughts、feelings and emotions are more apparent to others than is actually the case.A asymmetrical phenomenon between individuals’ self-perception and social perception known as the illusion of transparency.Gilovich(1998) refered to this tendency to overestimate the extent to which others can read one’s internal states as the illusion of transparency.The illusion of transparency are widely supported and tested in many different domains.Based on existing document by Chinese and foreign research, the research discussed the illusion of transparency in social anxiety through the three parts. At first,we randomly chose 606 college students finished interaction anxiousness scale from Chongqing area. We also interviewed with some college students in order to explore the basic condition of social anxiety of college students and ready to prepare for next experimental.Second,we found out the high and low level social anxiety of college students to finish "beverage recognition" experiment, then got their level of illusion of transparency. Finally, the research examined the illusion of transparency of the influence in social anxiety, that is, what role illusion of transparency played in social anxiety. According to the research of discussion and analysis, it is concluded that the following conclusion:(1)The social anxiety degree of the college students in Chongqing area was significantly higher than the American norm, significantly lower than the social anxiety degree of college students in Shanghai.Gender and major seem to have significant difference on the level of social anxiety,especially girls’ level much higher. Liberal arts students shown a higher level than science major students.But there are no significant difference in grade, family account, whether as a student cadres and whether they are the only.(2)In the direct or indirect situation, high and low social anxiety of college students seem to have statistical significance in the illusion of transparency.The low social anxiety shown a significant illusion of transparency much more than the high level.But gender shown no statistical significant.Compared with indirect,in the direct situation, high social anxiety of college students’ illusion of transparency tend to disappear,but the low was still clear.In indirect situation, high social anxiety of college students obviously appeared the illusion of transparency.(3)In scene of public speaking, the research demonstrated that the illusion of transparency relieves speech anxiety to some degree, through the control and experimental groups, the appropriate illusion of transparency indeed have protection function in interpersonal interactions.