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Objective To investigate the correlation between family environment,cognitive disposition,self-esteem and adolescent social phobia.Methods 110 adolescents with social phobia and 142 healthy control subjects were selected.They were surveyed by Family Environment Scale of Chinese version (FES-CV),cognitive appraisal orientation test (CAOT),and Self-Esteem Scale (SES).Moreover,the adolescents with social phobia were administered with Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD).Results When compared with the controls,the score of adolescent social phobia group showed significantly lower score in total and optimistic factor of CAOT,cohesion,expressiveness,achievement,activerecreational orientation,organization and self-esteem; but higher in conflict factor.The analysis of the results showed that SAD was significantly and negatively correlated with the score of total and optimistic factor of CAOT,cohesion,expressiveness and SES,while was significantly and positively correlated with the score of conflict factor.The seriousness of the condition was significantly negatively related to the score of optimistic factor,cohesion,expressiveness and SES,while the onset age was significantly positively related to them.The clinical course was significantly negatively related to the cohesion,expressiveness and self-esteem,while was significantly positively related to the score of conflict.Conclusions Negative cognitive disposition,lower cohesion,less expressiveness,higher conflict and lower self-esteem are the major factors that could affect the onset of adolescent social phobia.The more negative the cognitive disposition is,the lower the cohesion,the expressiveness and the self-esteem are,the earlier the onset age and the more serious the illness is.The longer clinical course is in ration to lower cohesion,less expressiveness,higher conflict and lower self-esteem.