Interpersonal Expectancies and Social Anxiety in Anticipating Interaction

Social Anxiety in University Students

“…Inadequacy in social skills necessary for interpersonal relationships is regarded as the potential cause of social anxiety (Curran, 1977;Halford & Foddy, 1982); people suffering from social anxiety are considered to have inadequate social skills by others (Segrin & Kinney, 1995). In some research, correlations between interaction anxiousness and inadequate social skills varied between Ϫ.48 and Ϫ.58 (DePaulo, Epstein, & LeMay, 1990;Miller, 1995;Patterson, Churchill, & Powell, 1991;Riggio et al, 1990;Segrin, 1996). A negative correlation was found between social anxiety and self-esteem (Cheek & Buss, 1981;Clark & Arkowitz, 1975;Geits & Borecki, 1982;Jones, Briggs, & Smith, 1986;Leary & Kowalski, 1993, 1995McCroskey & Andersen, 1976).…”