摘要：The communication process that influences human lives is negatively affected by social anxiety. There have been many studies conducted and perspectives introduced about social anxiety. The purpose of this study is to explain social anxiety through examining approaches regarding social anxiety and investigate the sufficiency of those approaches. In this study, approaches about social anxiety are categorized in five groups. These categories are biological approach, psychological approach, cultural approach, skill deficit approach, and self-presentation approach. Biological approach emphasizes the impact of biological factors and heredity on social anxiety. According to this approach heredity plays a critical role in experiencing social anxiety. According to cultural approach, cultural factors are effective on social anxiety. There is a relationship between society's attitudes towards shyness and reserves and social anxiety experienced by individuals. Among psychological approaches, psychoanalytic, behavioural and cognitive approaches analyzed social anxiety based on their own theoretical frameworks and tried to explain it. According to the skill deficit approach, individuals have anxiety to enter social environments since they assume that their social skills are insufficient. Furthermore, this study focuses more on self-presentation approach that provides detailed explanations regarding social anxiety in comparison to other approaches in terms of causes and effects of social anxiety. In fact, self-presentation approach tries to explain social anxiety by including some perspectives of other approaches. While other approaches explain social anxiety based on either situational (resulting from the environment or from others) or dispositional factors (resulting from the individual him/herself), self-presentation approach associates social anxiety with both factors.
关键词：Social Anxiety, Self-Presentation, Social Skill;Sosyal Kaygı, Kendini Sunma, Sosyal Beceri
