SOCIALANXIETY IN HIGHER EDUCATION LEARNING CONTEXT: SCALE CONSTRUCTION AND RELIABILITY

This article reviews research study that focuses on the construction of social anxiety scale for the students in higher learning settings. The research study positions scale development methodology by assessing its reliability on the sample identified from a larger population. The scale consisting of 15 items with a provision of 4 Likert response options was administered on a sample of 114 students chosen from the various universities for this study. Cronbach's alpha reliability test was applied and scale presented a high reliability of 0.742.