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Investigation of the relationship between social appearance concerns and negative assessment fear levels in university students

1 Kocaeli University, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Kocaeli, Turkiye
2 Sinop University, Faculty of Sports Sciences, Sinop, Turkiye

Abstract

This research was conducted to investigate the relationship between students’ social appearance anxiety and fear of negative evaluation. The population of the research consists of 3038 students studying at Kocaeli University, Faculty of Physical Education and Faculty of Fine Arts, and the sample consists of 894 students, 524 males and 370 females, who participated voluntarily. To obtain the data in the study, the "Social Appearance Anxiety Scale SGKS" and the "Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale" (ADKS) were used. During the data analysis process, frequency analysis was used to determine the demographic characteristics of the participants, skewness and kurtosis values were used to determine whether the data were normally distributed, correlation analysis was used to determine the relationship between the scales, and regression analysis was used to measure the effect of the variables. The analysis revealed a positive relationship between social appearance anxiety and fear of negative evaluation scales (p<0.05). When the results of the analysis were examined, it was found that students’ social appearance anxiety had an impact on their fear of negative evaluation scores. (F=203.435; p<0.01). Therefore, students experience anxiety when they have a negative perception of their social appearance, which can affect their social relationships.

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How to Cite

Akdeniz, H., & Sekban, G. (2023). Investigation of the relationship between social appearance concerns and negative assessment fear levels in university students . Journal of ROL Sport Sciences, 861–878. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10036548

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