<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><sec><h3>Objectives</h3><p>The general objective of this research was to see if academic achievement significantly relates with social anxiety of high school students. There were other specific and auxiliary objectives also. One among these was to gather prevalence data of social anxiety among adolescents of Kathmandu.</p></sec><sec><h3>Method</h3><p>A survey was conducted among 696 high school students of Kathmandu to see if academic achievement was associated with their social phobia. Convenient sample from a high school was used. Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN), a self-report test, was used to measure social anxiety disorder of adolescent students. Some demographic data were also collected. Data were organized in MS Excel and analysed in SPSS.</p></sec><sec><h3>Results</h3><p>The prevalence of ‘very severe’ social phobia among boys was 2.01% and girls had that of 1.71%. One-way ANOVA showed that academic achievement did not have a relationship with social phobia, F (2, 613) = 1.74, p > 0.05.</p></sec><sec><h3>Conclusions</h3><p>Academic achievement was not associated with social phobia among students of a high school in Kathmandu. Boys have more prevalence of severe forms of social anxiety than girls when they are in adolescence.</p></sec></abstract>

ObjectivesThe general objective of this research was to see if academic achievement significantly relates with social anxiety of high school students. There were other specific and auxiliary objectives also. One among these was to gather prevalence data of social anxiety among adolescents of Kathmandu.MethodA survey was conducted among 696 high school students of Kathmandu to see if academic achievement was associated with their social phobia. Convenient sample from a high school was used. Social Phobia Inventory (SPIN), a self-report test, was used to measure social anxiety disorder of adolescent students. Some demographic data were also collected. Data were organized in MS Excel and analysed in SPSS.ResultsThe prevalence of ‘very severe’ social phobia among boys was 2.01% and girls had that of 1.71%. One-way ANOVA showed that academic achievement did not have a relationship with social phobia, F (2, 613) = 1.74, p > 0.05.ConclusionsAcademic achievement was not associated with social phobia among students of a high school in Kathmandu. Boys have more prevalence of severe forms of social anxiety than girls when they are in adolescence.

Lack of Association between Academic Achievement and Social Phobia among High School Students of Kathmandu

Assistant Professor at Department of Psychology and Philosophy

Global Psychiatry

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ObjectivesThe general objective of this research was to see if academic achievement significantly relates with social anxiety of high school students. There...

Ethnicity	Number of students	Percentage	Socio-economic status	Number of students	Percentage	Grade	Number of students	Percentage	Religion	Number of students	Percentage
Brahman	290	41.67	Rich class	11	1.58	A+	305	43.82	Hindu	616	88.51
Chhetri	110	15.80	Middle class	633	90.95	A	191	27.44	Buddhist	32	4.60
Janjati	68	9.77	Poor class	14	2.01	Other (B+, B, C+, C)	120	17.24	Other (Islam, atheism, Kirat)	29	4.17
Madhesi (Tarai origin)	61	8.76	Not revealed	38	5.46	Not revealed	80	11.49	Not revealed	19	2.73
Newar	141	20.26
Not revealed	26	3.73
Total	696	100	Total	696	100	Total	696	100	Total	696	100

Independent variable	Dependent variable		Sum of Squares	df	Mean Square	F	Sig.
Academic achievement	Social Phobia	Between Groups	442.075	2	221.037	1.739	.177
Academic achievement	Social Phobia	Within Groups	77933.003	613	127.134
Religious affiliation	Social Phobia	Between Groups	526.669	2	263.335	2.031	.132
Religious affiliation	Social Phobia	Within Groups	87406.989	674	129.684
Ethnicity	Social Phobia	Between Groups	722.721	4	180.680	1.368	.244
Ethnicity	Social Phobia	Within Groups	87849.322	665	132.104
Socioeconomic status	Social Phobia	Between Groups	1181.090	2	590.545	4.498	.011
		Within Groups	85998.331	655	131.295

Independent variable	Dependent variable	Equality of variance	t value	p value	Significance
Gender	Social Phobia	No	1.29	.20	No
Family type	Social Phobia	No	.81	.42	No
Education type	Social Phobia	No	.27	.79	No

Lack of Association between Academic Achievement and Social Phobia among High School Students of Kathmandu

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2020-0011

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Social anxiety disorder (SAD), anxiety, adolescents, high school, Nepal

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Number of participants according to grades in their last examination, their religion, ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Analysis of variance for academic achievement, religious affiliation and ethnicity with social phobia.

t tests for independent means

Lack of Association between Academic Achievement and Social Phobia among High School Students of Kathmandu

Online veröffentlicht: 22. Mai 2020

Seitenbereich: -

Eingereicht: 09. Jan. 2020

Akzeptiert: 18. Apr. 2020

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2020-0011

SchlüsselwörterSocial anxiety disorder (SAD), anxiety, adolescents, high school, Nepal

© 2020 Pralhad Adhikari et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Figure 1

Figure 3

Number of participants according to grades in their last examination, their religion, ethnicity and socioeconomic status

Analysis of variance for academic achievement, religious affiliation and ethnicity with social phobia.

t tests for independent means

Schlüsselwörter
Social anxiety disorder (SAD), anxiety, adolescents, high school, Nepal