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

Global Psychiatry

By: Pralhad Adhikari and Upama Poudel

Open Access

|May 2020

Abstract

Objectives

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.

Method

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.

Results

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.

Conclusions

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.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/gp-2020-0011 | Journal eISSN: 2451-4950

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Language: English

Submitted on: Jan 9, 2020

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Accepted on: Apr 18, 2020

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Published on: May 22, 2020

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Keywords:

Social anxiety disorder (SAD),

Related subjects:

Clinical medicine,

Psychiatry, psychotherapy,

Psychosomatic medicine and psychotherapy,

Paediatric and juvenile psychatry and psychotherapy,

Social sciences,

Psychology, other

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