The Impact Of Fear And Anxiety On Risk Taking Behavior And Sociability
The current research was aimed to check the fear, anxiety, and its impact on risk taking behavior and sociability among late adolescence and early adulthood. All the four scale were also correlated with each other and also find out the relationship between variables, correlated and regression analysis was also computed and t-test was also applied to find out gender differences among adolescences and adulthood. The present study successfully establishes significant negative correlation between fear and risk taking behavior. These findings are in line with another research that confirms the impact of fear was demonstrated to activate self-protective processes associated with risk aversion. The presence of or a highly distressing situation is known to influence the type of decisions that individuals make. Evidence suggests that risk-taking behavior is influenced by negative affective states such as fear, disgust, or anger. The finding suggest that anxiety is related with risk-avoidant behavior research signifying that individuals who have social anxiety also make risk avoidant decision on risk taking behavior assignment. Its suggesst that when a person is anxious that time he would avoid the risk taking behavior to overcome from it.
The current study revealed that there is no significant relationship between fear and sociability that less sociable children who prefer solitude may care less about rewards or find them less pleasurable, and this blunted reward responding may lead to and increased risk for clinical levels of depression during adolescence, when neural and social changes can combine to increase vulnerability to depression. And sometime lack of confidence and social support also play an important role to not become more sociable even when he don’t have fear and have more chances to be socialize, sometime parenting style also influence the personality of a person to not be more sociable.
Fourth hypothesis reporting that anxiety will be negatively correlated with sociability has also been rejected the study of Vannelli (2015) study not finding significant relation in sociability with anxiety it’s clearly seem that the anxious perceive their own social skills to be low. It may be that the increasing need for refined social skills in forming relationships or careers, and an emphasis on assertiveness and competitiveness, is making sociability and anxiety problems.
The fifth hypothesis that men will have more risk taking behavior as compare to women was also rejected by results. Through studies, it’s known that there is no gender differences are found. It is line that few gender differences found mostly in united states. Because in adolescence and adult both enjoy freedom and independency which may indulge them equally in harmful situations. The sixth hypothesis of study is also rejected by finding that level of fear and anxiety will be high in women as compare to men according to study men and women both have different level of responsibility and bodily structure which lead us toward that both have equal level of fear and anxiety. Both have different kind of responsibilities that make them face equal level of fear and anxiety gender roles also play a role men experience more social burden to run a family and support financially that make them sometime fear and anxious, same with women report their symptoms differently.
Women facing different life circumstance than men. Men feel psychological symptoms and women are physical symptoms. Study also proves that women are more sociable as compare to men according to lee (2007) girls become more attached to and involved with others, their identity processes are equivalent to those of boys. Girls change more, but their change is fixed in greater sociability, not higher reactivity to new relationships.
Demographic variables finding tell us about that fear is more common in age group of late adolescence because this is growing age and everything is new and individual feel uncomfortable, because he is out of his comfort zone face the challenges of life which influence their life and they feel fear in situation but anxiety is more common in early adult because this is the age when everyone want settlement in their life and they have to face lots of challenges so these things made them more anxious because in this age they want stability in every walk of life, but finding also showed that both group have equal level of risk taking behavior and sociability.
Study demographic also showed that the people who lived in rural areas have more fear than urban because they lived in a limited area where they don’t have proper facilities as the urban people have. Level of anxiety is also high in rural areas because they put more effort to fulfill their task or aim because they don’t have much opportunities as the urban people have they struggle hard for the betterment of their life so this made them anxious. But risk taking behavior is equal in both group because everyone take risk for the betterment of their life. And findings also suggest that urban are more sociable as compare to rural because they are more confident and their exposure is more the rural people so that’s why the urban people are more sociable. These demographic also influence our study results because every person have a unique personality which made him different from others so that’s why some variable may be non-significant because these thing also influence.
