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| Published: September 05, 2017
Social Anxiety: Prevalence and Gender Correlates among Young Adult Urban College Students
Asst. Professor, Montfort College, Bangalore, India & Research Scholar, Research and Development Centre, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, India Google Scholar More about the auther
Professor, Montfort College, Bangalore, India Google Scholar More about the auther
DIP: 18.01.097/20170404
DOI: 10.25215/0404.097
ABSTRACT
Social anxiety is a debilitating disorder often affecting everyday functioning of young adults. This developmental period has challenges in the domains of academics, career, and relationships. Thus, experience of social anxiety, even if subclinical, can be doubly challenging. This study aimed to assess the prevalence of social anxiety among young adults of urban college students in Bangalore, India. Participants of the study were a group of 472 college students comprising 250 males and 222 females. They were screened for social anxiety using Social Anxiety Questionnaire (SAQ) developed by Caballo et al. (2015) which measures five domains. It was found that 28.60% experience social anxiety which seems significant enough to demand attention. The percentage of males and females that experienced social anxiety was 27.2% and 30.18% respectively, establishing that there is no significant relationship between social anxiety and gender. Gender did not seem to correlate with any of the domains of social anxiety.
Keywords
Social Anxiety, Prevalence, Young Adults, Urban, College Students, Gender
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.
© 2017 Sridhar V & Surya Rekha S.V
Received: July 23, 2017; Revision Received: August 24, 2017; Accepted: September 05, 2017
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ISSN 2348-5396
ISSN 2349-3429
18.01.097/20170404
10.25215/0404.097
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Published in Volume 04, Issue 4, July-September, 2017