Lit Review #2

Self-esteem and fear of negative evaluation as mediators between family socioeconomic status and social anxiety in Chinese emerging adults.

1. "The social causation hypothesis suggests that the stress in connection with a depressing social position results in the development of mental disorders."

2. "(1) the emerging adults belonging to families with low SES are at an increased risk of social anxiety"

3. "(2) lower family SES caused lower self-esteem, which, in turn, serves to enhance the levels of FNE, thereby increasing social anxiety"

This study is significant to my research because it is a study done specifically on foreign students and Rutgers has a very large population of foreign students. It talks about the background psychological aspects of social isolation and how socioeconomic backgrounds are just one of the many causes of things like anxiety and depression in college students.

Author: Cheng G., Zhang D., Ding F.

Cheng G, Zhang D, Ding F. Self-esteem and fear of negative evaluation as mediators between family socioeconomic status and social anxiety in Chinese emerging adults. International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 2015;61(6):569-576. doi:10.1177/0020764014565405: