The moderatör role of general belongingness on the relations between social appearance anxiety and sense of social emotional loneliness

The purpose of this study is to investigate the moderator role of general belonging on the relationship between social emotional loneliness perceptions and social appearance concerns of individuals. At the same time other subpurpose of the study* is to investigate the social emotional loneliness feeling according to the demographical variables. The research group consists of 316 people. 197 of this group is female and 119 is male. In this research, Social Appearance Anxiety Scale (SAAS), Emotional and Social Loneliness Scale and General Belief Scale were used as data collection tools. As a statistical method in the evaluation of data; Descriptive statistics, T-test for independent groups, one-way analysis of variance for independent groups (ANOVA), correlation test for relational analysis, and hierarchical regression analysis were used to determine the moderator role. According to the demographic variables, in a social dissection, Social Emotional Loneliness shows significantly difference in conditions of educational status and situation of having children. When educational status increases, loneliness decreases and individuals who have children are having more loneliness than individuals who have not children. As a result of the study, a significant positive correlation was found between social appearance anxiety and social emotional loneliness level. Also it is found that, in relation between anxiety of social appearance and social emotional loneliness, general belongingness stracture has no moderating role.