A Research On Social Anxiety Of University Students In Social Transformation

During the period of social transformation, social structures and relationship of interests have changed dramatically, bringing the conflicts of values and social norms, the diverse subject consciousness and concepts of values. People tend to feel curious, resistible, acknowledgeable, afraid, uncertain about the future when they face the rapidly changing social environment, for the reason that it is easy for them to fall into the state of anxiety. When anxiety becomes a universal social mental state, the problem of social anxiety is generated. Data displays that university students also face the problem of social anxiety. University students are the nexus generations, their mental state will not only influence their personal development, but also is related to the country’s future, so it is necessary to study the current situation and influencing factors of university students’ social anxiety, and then improve the mental health of university students and social environment.The performances of university students’ social anxiety are anxiety of identity, anxiety of survival and development, anxiety of safety and anxiety of relationships. With the development of society, university students transform from God’s favored ones to senior workers, this diversification reflects that university students’ social identity and self identity are stripped, which leads to that university students don’t know how to regard themselves and handle the relationship between outside world and themselves. The main feature of anxiety of survival is anxiety of employment. In today’s market economy mechanism, university students have to find jobs and take risks all by themselves. The questions like whether able to find a job, good or bad jobs are unknown and the future is full of risk and competition, so anxiety of survival and development is inevitable. Due to the relatively open campus environment and the large psychological pressure of university students, the risk of campus life is also increasing, so university students live in an insecure environment which full of risk and uncertain factors, therefore anxiety of safety increases. Due to university students’ physical and psychological characteristics and intense social competition, university students also suffer from interpersonal problems.China’s modernization process has a compression of time and space, namely complete the task in a few years which takes other countries a century to accomplish, transforming from a traditional society to a modern society. Such rapid social transformation bring about tremendous changes in the social environment, so members of the community, including university students have been a huge attacked on the mind. Dramatic changes in the social environment make university students bear the heavy work and social pressure, the contradiction between job market contradiction and the lag of university education makes lots of university students face employment difficulties, and curing trend of social classes, inequality of employment have aggravated employment problems of university students. Lack of social safety nets and the absence of social security system make the future full of worries, and the diversification of social values and lack of beliefs increase their confusion, make them suffer from anxiety.Anxiety has some positive effect, it can bring some pressure to people and inspire people’s latent energy, encourage people to proactive and improve themselves, accordingly increase social vitality. However, when anxiety continues to accumulate and spread, and become the general mental state of community, its negative impact will be amplified and it will affect the healthy development of society. University students’ social anxiety has significant negative effect, it not only influence physical and mental health of university students and their normal working life, but also trigger a series of irrational behaviors, so influence affect social stability and development, even affect the legitimacy of political power and reduce social cohesion.Although social anxiety is a social problem, it can urge the government to actively respond to the potential social problems and improve its ability and governance, create a more equitable institutional environment and enhance people’s sense of security and well-being. From the characteristics of university students’ anxiety, their anxiety mainly comes from the unfair institutional environment and the ubiquity of social risk. To relieve their anxiety, we should start from improving the institutional environment and reducing social risk, and then minimize the negative impact of university students’ social anxiety. The main measures include creating a more equitable institutional environment, improving the social security system, optimizing the allocation of university resources, vigorously carrying forward the socialist justice value, improving counseling mechanism and so on.