TY  - JOUR
T1  - Social Anxiety as a Basic Factor Shaping Anti-Vital and Suicidal
Behaviour among Contemporary Adolescents
AU - Anatolievna, Sagalakova Olga AU - Vladimirovich, Truevtsev Dmitry AU - Mikhailovich, Sagalakov Anatoly 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 11
IS  - 27
SP  - 6418
EP  - 6426
PY  - 2016
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2016.6418.6426
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2016.6418.6426
KW  - Social anxiety
KW  -anti-vital and suicidal behaviour
KW  -evaluation situation
KW  -voluntary regulation of
KW  -social situation of development
KW  -adolescence
KW  -psychological tools (means)
AB  - The aim of this study is to define the role of Social Anxiety (SA) and its components in
shaping adolescent Anti-vital Behaviour (AB) with a subsequent risk of Suicidal Behaviour (SB). It is
a psycho-anthropological problem requiring studies on the role of the social situation of development and
cultural scenarios of attitudes to success or failure in making decisions on life continuation or termination. The
research’s proprietary anti-vitality and resilience Questionnaire and Social Anxiety and Social Phobia
Questionnaire were used. About 981 adolescents living in the Altai Kray (Siberia) participated in the survey.
About 24% from the sample have high SA levels and 21.8% have clinical SA levels connected with high risk
of AB and SB. The mechanism of SA development is based on impairment in voluntary target regulation of
mental activity when solving social problems under evaluation conditions. Adolescents find themselves in
unstable conditions of the psychological field reorganization and they are in need of actualization of means to
satisfy their social motives. It makes them vulnerable to mental disorganization under evaluation conditions and
the situation is aggravated with the absence of internalized mental regulation tools. Inability to satisfy their
actual motives, lack of strategy for self-realization and dealing with failures and inability to keep the targeted
priority in evaluation situations lead to feeling loss of life purpose and negative evaluation of the future and
shape AB. AB is shaped with severe SA, especially under conditions of an unfavourable situation of
development and can lead to SB. The adolescents in rural areas report more SA when displaying initiative and
solving everyday problems and they are more prone to conflict response and AB than urban residents.
ER  -