EFFECT OF SOCIAL ANXIETY DISORDER ON STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY YEARS
Keywords:
Social anxiety, academic performance, university studentsAbstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between social anxiety and academic performance of university students. Sixty students participated in the study. The participants were taken from Institute of Education and Research (B.ED Hons), through simple random sampling. Social phobia inventory scale was used to identify the social anxiety among students. Responses of students were analyzed through SPSS version 20. Besides this Chi-square independence test and regression was used for data analysis. The impact of social anxiety on academic performance was investigated by examining the GPAs of students. Levine’s T-test model was used to analyze data of two groups that is the high and low scorer students. The P-value is .333 greater than 0.05, which is insignificant. The result shows no effect of social anxiety on the academic performance of students.
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