Emotional-Evolutional Model of Social Anxiety in University Students

[...]Diener, Mangenlsdorf, McHale, and Frosch (2002) suggest that infant-caregiver attachment relationships is significantly associated with the development of the capacity for emotion regulation. [...]the lack of theoretical and empirical models for university students is surprising. [...]it is necessary to produce predictive models with empirical support in this group to improve our knowledge of this disorder. According to this model, people with social anxiety tend to avoid expressing their emotions in order to prevent the possible exposure of undesired feelings that might cause social mistakes, embarrassment and rejection. [...]people with social anxiety face conflicts of acceptance-rejection between the desire to generate a good impression and be accepted by the others, and they are overwhelmed by beliefs about highly probable and costly rejection, expectations that socializing will cause undesired thoughts, feelings and sensations and that they will be assessed as negative.