Relationship of shyness, anxiety and well-being among young adults

Pages: 670-675
Kamalpreet Kaur and Jasgeet Kaur (Department of Psychology, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab)

The present study was conducted to know the relationship of shyness, anxiety and well-being among young adults. A comparative analysis has also been done between Jalandhar and Ludhiana regions with respect to their shyness, anxiety and well-being. Descriptive method was used in the present study to obtain the pertinent and precise information. The sample of the study was 200 Ludhiana and Jalandhar students between the age group of 18-25yrs. Convenient sampling technique was used by the researcher for choosing the sample from Lovely Professional University, Phagwara and from Ludhiana. The objectives of the study was to study the relationship between shyness and anxiety from different regions Jalandhar and Ludhiana , To study the relationship between shyness and well-being among male and female students of Jalandhar and Ludhiana regions, To study the relationship between anxiety and well-being among male and female students of Jalandhar and Ludhiana regions , To study the gender and area differences in shyness, anxiety and well-being. Well-being by Ryff’s (PWS) (1999) shyness 20 items scale was used by researcher for data collection. The investigator used quantitative Technique-Pearson correlation, t-test for data analysis and forgetting the result. The findings of the study reveal that shyness and anxiety is not significant between regions. Anxiety and Well-being is also not significant and shyness and well being also non significance between regions.