Social phobia seems to be next to agoraphobia the most common anxiety disorder . So far, it is ranked very differently. The investigation spread from 1.7% to 16% in the general population. An average value seems to be realistic.
General Exposure
A lot of people with social phobia are anxious or vulnerable in their personality structure. The trigger of the disorder is performed by corresponding environmental impacts, mostly insults, frustration or humiliation. Not exclude, however, a genetic predisposition to anxiety disorders in general and social phobia in particular. In any case, a familial predisposition (tendency) will be discussed more often a hereditary burden. This manifests itself mainly in a “positive family history, ie there is often a person with the same problems in the history of parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, nieces, nephews, paternal or maternal.
Personality Structure
People with social phobia are as anxious, introverted (more introspective) than others with less problems in this regard. The boundaries for shyness overlap.
