A Study On The Relationship Between College Students’ Self-acceptance And Social Anxiety: The Mediating Role Of Perceived Social Support

Under the present education system, college is very important stage of the whole life.When high school students come into the university,they begin to experience more and more stress in social life. Therefore, both foreign and inland psychologists are interested in college students’ social anxiety. Former research shows that there is a certain correlation between self-acceptance and social anxiety, self-acceptance of individual can predict the level of social anxiety.And there are some researches prove that self-acceptance can affect the level of perceived social support.Based on the past researches,this study try to investigate a further relationship between self-acceptance,perceived social support and social anxiety,and also try to find out whether the perceived social support is the mediating factor when the self-acceptance on individual’s social anxiety.This study adopted the questionnaire method, which taking 250 college students as the random samples. In this study we use the difference test, the ANOVA test, the correlation analysis and the regression analysis to analyze the results. Then the conclusions are as followings:1.College students’ self-evaluation differs from different grades.Freshman’s self-evaluation is significantly higher than sophomore,junor and fifth grade.And senior’s self-evaluation is significantly higher than fifth grade college student.2.The social anxiety of liberal arts students is signicantly higher than science students.3. College students’ social anxiety differs from different grade students. Freshman’s social anxiety is significantly lower than sophomore,junior and fifth grade student.And sophomore students’ social anxiety is significantly higher than senior student.4.There is a significant negative correlation between College Students’ self acceptance and social anxiety.5. College Students’ self-acceptance is positively correlated with perceived social support.6. There is a significant negative correlation of perceived social support and social anxiety.7. Perceived social support is a mediator between self-acceptance and social anxiety.