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SOCIAL ANXIETY, SELF-CONFIDENCE AND BODY CONSCIOUSNESS AMONG STUDENTS

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Kashish Dhawan1*, Dr. Mohammad Amin Wani
» doi: 10.48047/ecb/2023.12.si5a.0105

Abstract

The current research was designed to assess social anxiety, self-confidence and body consciousness among students. A convenient sample of 149 students was drawn from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, India with the age range of 17-22years (54.4%) and 23-29 years (45.6%) respectively. 55.7% students were males and 44.3% students were females. The percentage of students living in urban and rural areas were (60.4%) and (39.6%) respectively. Further, out of the total sample size, (51.7%) students were day scholars and (48.3%) were hostelers. Regarding the food preferences, (51.0%) students were vegetarian and (49.0%) students were non-vegetarian. The self-confidence scale (self-constructed), McKinley and Hyde's (1996) objectified body consciousness scale, and Caballo, Salazar, et al.'s (2010) social anxiety scale for adults were used as evaluation instruments in this work. Mean, standard deviation, frequency distribution, t-test, correlation analysis, and regression analysis were all implied for statistical data analysis. The data revealed that selfconfidence was significantly negatively correlated with social anxiety and body consciousness, while social anxiety was significantly positively correlated with body consciousness. Furthermore, the results show that self-confidence contributes 48% (r2 =.48) to social anxiety and 54% (r2 =.54) to body consciousness.

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