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Structured interviews collected data from 30 boys and 30 girls from Central Model School and Government Girls High School, Samanabad, who were previously identified as having social anxiety. 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This study, as a further step of the first study, tried to find out the causes of social anxiety among elementary grade children. The objective of the study was to find out the major causes of social anxiety in elementary grade children. Structured interview schedules were used to collect data from 30 boys and 30 girls from Central Model School and Government Girls High School, Samanabad respectively. These boys and girls had already been identified as having social anxiety in the previous study. The findings of the present study indicated that the major cause of social anxiety among both boys and girls was their personal thinking factor.  \nKeywords: Social anxiety, prevalence, causes, elementary, grade, children  \n*Assistant Professor, Government College of Home Economics, Gulberg Lahore.  \n** Assistant Professor, Institute of Education and Research, University of the Punjab, Lahore  \nIntroduction  \nFeeling anxiety and nervousness while speaking or presenting in public is common among many people. However, if this turns into persistent and irrational fear of situations and impedes everyday activities in addition to making it hard to make and keep friends, this feeling is called Social Anxiety Disorder (SAD) or Social Phobia (Hub, 2002) . It is expressed as the “fear of disgrace in social and/or performance situations, which can result in avoidance of social situations, social withdrawal and remoteness” (APA, 2000).There has been an increased recognition during the last two decades that children also suffer from this disorder (Beidel, 1991; Rubin, & Burgess, 2001) . Achenbach and Edelbrock (1984) concluded that anxiety disorder is one of the disorders of childhood.  \nThe definite cause of social anxiety is still unidentified, but the research supports that multiple causes including biological, genetic and environment contribute to an increase in anxiety (Morris, 2001; Rapee, 2001).Literature elaborates that causes of social anxiety can be classified into four theoretical models. The skills deficit model assumes that social anxiety occurs due to inappropriate social skills that often result in awkward social encounters and lead subjects to avoid situations that elicit this anxiety. The cognitive self-evaluation model states that negative selfperception results in social anxiety and subjects affected by this overly underestimate themselves and believe that they do not perform well in social situations, even if it isnot true. The classical conditioning approach assumes that social anxiety develops when neutral stimuli are followed by negative conditions, hence creating an adverse association with that situation. The fourth model, personality traits approach states that social anxiety occurs due to differences in the emotional, cognitive and behavioral aspects of personality and shyness may even have an inherited component. According to Rubin and Asendorpf (2014), withdrawal from the social situation may be result of various causes. White, Bruce, Farrell and Kliewer (1998) indicated the role of environment for the development of social anxiety among children. They also found that girls are more affected in their anxiety by the environmental factors than boys. Rubin, Lemare and Lollis (1990) concluded that the way parents deal with their children and the environment they provide is a major factor for the development of social phobia. Dadds, Barrett, Rapee and Ryan (1996) indicated similar factors in their research. Bruch and Heimberg (1994) also found that parents, who do not socialize their children and isolate them, are more likely to have children with social phobias.  \nOne theory for the cause of social anxiety is that social anxiety runs in families (","cbCaihoWpJpSU8B4","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihoWpJpSU8B4","pdf",126826,12,"English","# Abstract\n# Introduction\n## Background and models of social anxiety\n## Prior findings on family, environment, and traits\n# Objective\n# Method","[{\"question\":\"What was the objective of the present study?\",\"answer\":\"The study aimed to identify the major causes of social anxiety among elementary grade children.\"},{\"question\":\"How was data collected, and who participated?\",\"answer\":\"Structured interview schedules gathered data from 30 boys and 30 girls from the specified schools; participants had already been identified in the earlier study as having social anxiety.\"},{\"question\":\"What major cause of social anxiety did the findings highlight?\",\"answer\":\"The major cause for both boys and girls was their personal thinking factor.\"}]","Causes of Social Anxiety among Elementary Grade Children | PDF",1792081972]