Page No.317-322
Lancy D’Souza
Maharaja’s College, University of Mysore
Gururaj B Urs
Institute of Health Management Research, Bangalore.
and
Jayaraju R
Karnataka State Open University, Mysore
This study is an attempt to find out the extent of shyness and related guidance
needs if any among adolescent students. A total of 260 high school students
(131 male and 129 female) served as the subjects for the present study. To
assess shyness, Crozier’s shyness inventory and to assess guidance needs,
inventory developed by Grewal on guidance needs inventory were employed.
Results revealed that shyness had a direct relationship with two areas of guidance
needs-social and educational, and total guidance needs and as the shyness
levels increased, guidance needs were also increased. Shyness did not
influence the guidance needs in the areas-physical, psychological, and in
vocational areas. Male and female adolescents also did not differ significantly in
their guidance needs. Treatment aspects of shyness have been delineated