Notice of RetractionCollege students´ social anxiety associated with stress and mental health

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OBJECTIVE: To explore the mediator effects of social anxiety on college students´ life stress and mental health. METHODS: 1430 college students were tested by revised Adolescent Self-Rating Life Events Check List (ASLEO), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ12) and social anxiety scale chose from Self Consciousness Scale. RESUTL AND ANALYSIS: The college students´ stressors were related to social anxiety and mental health. Social anxiety had intermediate effect on college students´ stress and mental health. There were demographic differences between stressors, social anxiety and mental health. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: The most popular stressors of college students included stress of punishment, stress of external expectation, stress of learning and living adaptation, stress of interpersonal relations, and stress of loosing relatives. Counseling related to social anxiety and training of stress management was able to help college students better their cognition of stress situation, moderate their social anxiety, and improve their mental health.