The relationship between Metacognition and Social Anxiety among Young Adults
Keywords:
Metacognition, Social Anxiety and Young Adults, Cognitive Self-Consciousness.Abstract
Young adulthood is a period marked by increased anxiety related to various factors like personal, environmental and professional stressors. The ability to successfully cope with these stressors is strongly negatively related to mental health outcomes. Furthermore, recent studies indicate a connection between executive function, and anxiety. The current study examines the relationship between Metacognition, and Social Anxiety among young adults. The data was collected online from young adults. For data collection Demographic Sheet, Metacognition Questionnaire (MCQ-30), and Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A) was used. The data were collected from 103 young adults (23 males and 80 females) residing in India. The collected data was then analyzed to find the correlation between the variables using Spearman Correlation. The result indicates that there is a positive correlation between all the 5 dimensions of Metacognition and all the 4 dimensions of social anxiety.
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