A Study on Social Anxiety and Aggression among Young Adults

Abstract

Social anxiety is an excessive fear of potentially embarrassing or humiliating situations and it is a common mental health problem. Aggression is overt or covert, frequently harmful, social interplay with the aim of causing harm or different damage upon every other individual. The relationship between social anxiety and aggression is being studied but in a scattered manner. The combination of social anxiety and aggression cause many problems to the individual as well as to the society. It is important to know how social anxiety and aggression affects the individuals in a detailed way. The goal of the study was to assess the impact of social anxiety among young adults and the impact of aggression due to social anxiety in young adults. In the study it was evident that social anxiety is correlated with aggression. People with social anxiety are often perplexed about expressing their emotions and thoughts with someone. This causes social anxiety. As a result of their inability to express their true emotions, their anger builds up. They engage in some socially unacceptable activities to get rid of the unease.