Notice of RetractionA Study on the Relations among Distress Disclosure, Non-Supportive Social Responses and Anxiety of College Students

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The purpose of this study was to explore the relationships among distress disclosure; non-supportive social responses, and anxiety, then predict anxiety of college students. The subjects of this study were college students from universities in the southern area of Taiwan. The subjects were assessed by group measurements in which 1,650 copies questionnaire were sent out and 1,612 were retrieved from December, 2007 to March, 2008. The validity rate was 98%. The instruments used were structural questionnaires including distress disclosure, nonsupportive social responses, social support, and Beck anxiety inventory. The data was analyzed by SPSS 12.0, through product-moment correlation, and stepwise regression analysis. Disclosure intentions and keeping distance, blaming, and invalid responses of college students have significant negative correlations. Disclosure intentions and anxiety of college students have a significant negative correlation. Keeping distance, blaming, invalid responses, and anxiety of college students have positive significant correlations. The factors predicting anxiety of college students are non-supportive social responses, disclosure intentions; disclosure issues, disclosure subjects, and the interpreted amounts of variance were 8.8%. Based on the above findings, concrete suggestions are offered for counseling practices and future research. These contributions can provide prevention of anxiety in colleges.