An Investigating the Levels of Social Appeaarance Anxiety of High School Students in Terms of Various Variables

The study aimed to investigate if there is a significant difference between the anxiety level of high school students and the variables of gender, school, education status of mother and father, perceived socioeconomic status, the birth order among siblings, perceived mother and father attitude, relationship between friends, school success, the evaluation of physical appearance and the level of self-esteem. With this purpose the research has been carried out on 115 high school students (64 girls, 51 boys) who are students from different high schools in the province of Refahiye / Erzincan. Social Appearance Anxiety scale Adolescent From which is translated into Turkish by Doğan (2011) is used. In addition, Personal Information From is prepared and used by the researcher. This investigation is a descriptive research in the scanning model. T-test and simple correlation analyzes have been used to collect the data of the research. The results of the research have been revealed that there is a significant differentiation between the social appearance anxiety and the self-esteem. The students with low self-esteem have much more social appearance anxiety than the students with high sels-esteem. According to the evaluations of physical appearance, social appearance anxiety is indicated a statistically significant difference. It is seen that the average point of students who do not like their physical appearance is significantly higher than the average point of students who likes a little, who is hesitant , who likes much and who likes very much. According to friendship relations social appearance anxiety is indicated a statistically significant difference. The ones whose relationship with their friends is somewhat in defining is statistically higher than the ones who defines as very much and extremely. There is no statistically significant difference between the other variables.