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STUDY OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL ANXIETY AND PSYCHOLOGICAL DEFENSE OF STUDENTS: AN INTEGRAL APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM // Pedagogical Review. 2015. Issue 3 (9). P. 33-39

The article considers the problem of social anxiety of university students in the aspect of its connection with psychological defense mechanisms, which help to maintain homeostasis. The independent empirical research data, covering a comprehensive program of social and psychological assistance for students who are socially maladjusted, is presented. The findings suggest that in critical situations student’s brain creates not only less mature defense reactions, such as repression and regression, but also more mature mechanisms, as projection and compensation, using both levels of “perceptual defense” with the removing of information from the consciousness, and the level of information restructuring. The mechanism of protection depends on many factors, primarily on the individual structure, as well as the level of education, social status, age and gender, this field requires further study. In some situations high stress, crisis factors, mental disorder, pharmacological deviation can determine the specificity of the use of psychological defense mechanisms.

Keywords: social anxiety, social phobia, psychological defense, students