The relationship between attention bias and social self-efficacy with social anxiety in girls high school of sari

Social anxiety disorder often begins in adolescence and can be distinguished by social fears that could make damage damage in job, education and social functions. This study was conducted in order to investigate the relationship between social anxiety with some of the social anxiety predictor variables, including attention bias (self focused attention, external focus attention) and social self-efficacy among female high school students of Sari 360 participants were selected by cluster random sampling method. The tools of the study were social phobia scale (SAS-A), the focus of attention questionnaire (FAQ) and self-efficacy for social situations scale (SESS). The research method was correlation and the collected data was analyzed based on stepwise regression analysis and Pearson correlation. The results showed that social anxiety has significant correlation with attention\ bias (p<0/001) and social self-efficacy (p</). Data analysis indicated that relationship between social anxiety and social self efficacy is positive but relationship between social anxiety and attention bias is negative. In social situation, fcocus of attention and negative beliefs will result in poor performance, that it will cause more anxiety and continuity of anxiety.