Predictive Self – efficacy, Paranoid Personality and life’s stresses, on social anxiety among a sample of adolescents in Jordan and its relation with self security.

Abstract

This study aimed to detect the Predictive Self – efficacy, Paranoid Personality and life’s stresses, on social anxiety among a sample of adolescents in Jordan and its relation with self security. The sample of the study consisted of randomly selected students from the Jordanian universities who are registered for the first semester of the year 20152016/ from genders, (690 males and 1023 females. The researchers used 4 scales after verifying the psychometric characteristics (Validity and Reliability) to them. The 5 scales are: social anxiety, Self – efficacy, Paranoid Personality, self security, and life’s stresses. The results of multiple regression analysis that the variable Self – Efficacy, Paranoid Personality and Life’s Stresses affected Social Anxiety. As it turns out that there are differences in the Social Anxiety to the variables of gender to the favor of females. In light of these results, the researchers recommends conducting further studies about Self – Efficacy, Paranoid Personality, Life’s Stresses, Self Security, and Social Anxiety, using new samples and variables, to benefit from this study results