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Comparative Study
| Published: March 31, 2019
Social Anxiety: A Comparative Study
Panjab University, Chandigarh, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.114/20190701
DOI: 10.25215/0701.114
ABSTRACT
Society is acquainted to every individual’s life, even an introvert person makes one or two social contacts to survive. But a major problem of social acceptance is rising in today’s modern world. Everyone in this term, are running behind to match themselves with the society’s status so that they could be easily accepted by them, and if this failed, then it could lead to a problem named as SOCIAL ANXIETY, an anxiety where a person is afraid to be accepted, to stand in front of others, to be judged by others and so on. So, to get more knowledge about this issue, a comparative study has been designed on the sample of 100 individuals of age range (18-25) years with the help of Social Anxiety questionnaire for Adults (SAQ-A-30), and this study had been majorly conducted on the adults so as to examine the Gender differences (male/female) in the issue of suffering from social anxiety. This questionnaire also focuses of 5 sub-dimensions like, Speaking in public/talking with people in authority, Interaction with the opposite sex, Assertive expression of annoyance, disgust, or displeasure, Criticism and embarrassment and interaction with strangers. Therefore, it was studied that individuals are awfully becoming a part of social anxiety which can lead to social phobia.
Keywords
Social Anxiety, Social Phobia, Behavioral Inhibition, Personality
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
© 2019, R Gupta
Received: January 20, 2019; Revision Received: March 25, 2019; Accepted: March 31, 2019
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ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.114/20190701
10.25215/0701.114
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Published in Volume 07, Issue 1, January-March, 2019