Investigating the relation of Bridging Social Capital and anxiety stigma with social anxiety of students

The purpose of this research was to assess the association between Bridging Social Capital and anxiety stigma with social anxiety students. This research was a correlation study. Statistical sample of this study includes 200 students of Payame Noor University that have been selected by cluster sampling and in several phases. The instruments used in this study were the Social Phobia Inventory (Connor، Davidson، Churchil، Sherwood، Foa & Weisler، 2001)، Generalized Anxiety Stigma Scale (Griffiths، Batterham، Lisa & Parsons، 2011)، and Bridging Social Capital Scale (Adibisadeh، Yazdkhastiy، Rabanieh khorasgani & Lotfizadeh، 2009). The data was analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. The results showed that is positive relationship between subscale personal stigma and subscales perceived stigma anxiety illness. But the relationship between bridging social capital with social anxiety is negative and significant at the level of (0. 05). So the results of multi-variable correlation coefficient with input method showed that the strongest variables in predicting social anxiety capital among of students are the subscale personal stigma، subscales perceived stigma anxiety illness and bridging social capital. There is a negative relationship between perceived stigma anxiety illness and bridging social but relation personal stigma anxiety illness with perceived stigma anxiety illness anxiety disorders is positive and significantly at the level of (0. 05). Therefore، eliminating anxiety stigma and training Bridging Social Capital should be considered as part of the intervention in social anxiety.