RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SHYNESS AND ADJUSTMENT AMONG COLLEGE STUDENTS

The present study reports relationship between shyness and various areas of adjustment of college students. A total of 160 subjects were selected through stratified random sampling from the various degree classes of different faculties of Maharajaʹs College of Mysore city. Out of 160 subjects 126 were men and 34 were women. They were assessed using Shyness Questionnaire (Crozier, 1995) and Adjustment Inventory for College Students (Sinha & Singh, 1995). One-way ANOVA was employed to find out the significance of difference between students belonging to low, medium and high levels of shyness in different areas of adjustment and total adjustment. Results revealed that shyness has got no differential effect on educational adjustment of the students. There is a significant linear increase in the home, health, social, emotional and total maladjustment as the level of shyness increased. Higher the shyness more was the maladjustment in home, health, social and emotional adjustments in the college students. In addition, treatment aspects of shyness are discussed.