Reached a new study recently published findings that people with social anxiety are keen to communicate with others via the Internet instead of confrontation face to face, and that social networks like Facebook gives them a chance to do so.
Researchers have studied the effect of meeting face to face for the first time at a later time after the acquaintance, and reached a dramatic results.
Publication of researchers from the Universities of Bncanutan in Arizona and Providence in Rhode Island their findings in the journal "Cyber Bsikoloja", and who, during the study evaluates social anxiety levels among 26 students between the ages of 18 and 20 years, were using social interaction IAS scale.
To carry out the test on the participants they were told that they have to remember the face of the people get to know them in order to remember the faces of the test, was made available to them face recognition in several ways, including the meeting on Facebook first, then personal encounter, or make two meetings together, or make one.
The results showed that when dating via Facebook, then meeting face to face psychological excitability occur in people who have high levels of social anxiety.
The researchers said that the meeting on Facebook does not make a subsequent meeting face to face easy, but makes it more tense and anxious.
The researchers assumed that the acquaintance on Facebook stir social anxiety as a result of self-comparison with this person.
The study observed that the participants felt safe when dating to their colleagues across Facebook, but when turning to real-life dating frantically felt nervous.
The results: "acquaintance on Facebook does not serve the protective function through direct acquaintance in real life, but may lead to an increase in negative excitement."
The researchers noted that their study was related to same-sex friendships, not participants used their own pages on Facebook in the experiment.
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