Social anxiety and public self-consciousness are compared as predictors of variability of social behavior by 242 subjects tested prior to entering college. Social anxiety is the stronger of the two predictors, increasing variance accounted for by 12%. Results are consistent with an explanation which emphasizes a motive to avoid disapproval.
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