LEVEL OF SOCIAL ANXIETY AMONG ADOLESCENCE

The students social anxiety is increasing in the world nowadays. More psychotic incidence of students, fatally wounding, kicking etc. Social anxiety is a disabling and treatable disorder with common onset in adolescents. It also a most psychological disorder in school aged children and adolescents world wide. The objectives of the study was to assess the level of social anxiety among adolescence in a selected village, Mangalore.Descriptive research design was used among 60 adolescence with the age group of 12- 18 years and non probabilityconvenient sampling was adopted for the study. The results showed that 20(33.3 %) had mild level of social anxiety and 6(10 %) of them had moderate level of social anxiety.