Shyness and its relationship to social anxiety among obese male and female students in the secondary stage in Riyadh city

Abstract

The present study aimed to uncover the relationship between shyness and social anxiety among high school students with obesity. It also aimed to identify the differences according to the gender variable, and the study followed the correlational descriptive approach. The study sample consisted of (200) high school students with obesity; from the secondary schools of Ibn Khaldun for boys and 120 secondary schools for girls in Riyadh. The study used a questionnaire for the BMI data for students, the scale of shyness, and the scale of social anxiety (The Researcher's Preparation). There is a positive correlation between shyness and social anxiety among the members of the research sample of high school students with obesity. There is a significant difference between the group of males and females in the levels of shyness and social anxiety as a whole and each dimension in favor of the female group.