Social Anxiety, Insomnia, Social Support in Young Adults

Social anxiety disorder is a psychological disorder where there is an intense, persistent fear inside a person of being watched, evaluated and judged by others which could affect their social lives like work, school, and other daily activities. Insomnia is a sleeping disorder which creates difficulty for a person to fall or staying asleep even when one gets that environment or opportunity to sleep well which makes us feel tired throughout the day and creates hindrances in functioning well in our day to day lives. Social Support is that type of support where pro social responses like aide and assistance are being provided by human beings to one another at times of need to remain integrated into society. Young adulthood stage in one’s life is characterized by rapid physical maturation, development of secondary sexual characteristics, cognitive and social skill development, economic independence. The present study adopts a correlational design to determine if there is any relation between social anxiety, insomnia, and social support in young adults. It adopts a between group design for determining gender differences with respect to social anxiety, insomnia, and social support. A non-probability purposive sampling method was used to select sample. During the data collection, 60 young adults were obtained out of which 30 are males and 30 are females. The findings showed positive relation between social anxiety and insomnia, social anxiety and social support, insomnia and social support in young adults. The findings showed gender difference with respect to insomnia and social support where males scored higher than females in insomnia and females scored higher than males in social support. The findings suggest that if people could lend support to each other in different social settings through mutual cooperation and exhibiting socially appropriate behaviours, then that would help those individuals who face social anxiety, to conduct themselves smoothly without facing any kind of anxiety with respect to how to present themselves properly in different social settings which in turn would prevent them from going through insomnia by thinking about it.