Social Anxiety, Culture Shock, Academic Adjustment and Ethnicity in Female University Students

Abstract

The present study was designed to investigate the social anxiety, culture shock, academic adjustment and ethnicity in female university students. In addition, the role of demographics variables (gender, age, family status, living status, university system, current living status, background, ethnicity, department, semester, etc.) was also determined in relation to the study variables. Convenient sample of 300 was collected from different universities of Islamabad (Quaid-i-Azam, Bahria, Air, Fatima Jinnah and NUML) and the face-to-face data was collected from Quaid-e- Azam University Islamabad. Instruments used in the present study were Culture Shock Questionnaire (Oberg, 1954), Social Anxiety Questionnaire for Adults (Caballo et al, 2010), Academic Adjustment Scale (Zia-ur- Rehman & Rabia Sharif, 2014). Results showed that the social anxiety was positively related with culture shock. Culture shock is positively related with academic adjustment and academic adjustment was positively related with social anxiety. Results of ONE- WAY ANOVA disclosed that due to ethnic defiance, some ethnic groups score higher because on cultural shock and social anxiety. There is no significant difference in living status, although some ethnic groups are different, leading to cultural shock and social anxiety. In the research basically divided into 6 ethnic groups (Punjabi, Sindhi, Pakhtoon, Baloch, Kashmir and Gilgit- Baltistan). According to the results different ethnic group scores different scales, in some scales Punjab group scores high and Pakhtoon female group score high. The hypotheses have been proved according to the tables