Modeling of social phobia according to emotional and cognitive components and gender: applying of path analysis

This paper aimed to predicting of social phobia with gender, perception of negative evaluation by others, negative self-evaluation, self-focus attention, behavioral inhibition and early maladaptive schemas variables among students of Baharestan Payam Noor university. The number of sample were 310 people that selected via available and volunteer sampling method. The instruments Were Social Phobia Inventory (Connor et al), Focus of Attention Questionnaire (Woody, Chambless & Glass), Adult Measure of Behavioral Inhibition (Gladstone & Parker), Consequences of Negative Social Events Questionnaire (Wilson & Rapee‌(, The State-Trait Anger Expression inventory (Spielbergerand). In this investigation data analysed with path analysis via AMOS software. although results from this paper showed gender and anger expression didn’t predict social phobia (p>0/05) but perception of negative evaluation by others, negative self-evaluation and behavioral inhibition components have direct effect on social phobia as mediating variables (p<0/05) while self-focus attention and early maladaptive schemas had indirect effect on social anxiety (p<0/05). Also this model explained the 72 percents of total variance.According to this study it can be said that early maladaptive schemas effect on social anxiety via surface-level cognition variables (perception of negative evaluation by others, negative self-evaluation and behavioral inhibition) as deeper cognitive variables.