Measuring social anxiety among middle school students

Abstract

The current research aims to determine the level of social
anxiety among middle school students and identify the level of
social anxiety in males and females as well as to determine the

level of social anxiety among the students of the scientific
section and the comparison between them and the literary
section.
The research sample consisted of ( 356 ) for both sexes of
junior high students in the capital of Diyala province for the
academic year ( 2012-2013 ) and Use test Altus to the two
independent samples and compared with the values derived
from the mathematical community level expected. The research
tools has adopted a search on the scale prepared Beauty ( 1997)
and extracted honesty apparent scale of the presentation to a
group of experts in the field of education and psychology , and
will emerge researcher characteristics psychometric was
calculated force discriminatory ranged between (0,92-0,52)
and therefore longer paragraphs the scale of discrimination is
good and reached reliability coefficient scale ( 0,82 ) for the way
re- test, were measured social anxiety for the purpose of
verifying the validity of the research hypotheses and processed
data using test Altai and extract the expected level of (76) with
the level achieved and showed search results, social anxiety
exists among males and females in varying degrees in favor of
males more than females , as well as the results show that social
anxiety among the students of the largest literary section of the
scientific section students . In light of the results of research, has
to formulate a set of recommendations and proposals in the
current study to conduct further studies of social anxiety
because it is the result of reasons, including social and cultural
changes , economic , psychological and family making calls to
identify them and develop successful solutions.