Summary of: “The Effect of Social Anxiety and Self-Esteem on College Adjustment, Academics, and Retention”
In this article titled “The Effect of Social Anxiety and Self-Esteem on College Adjustment, Academics, and Retention”, the Authors Alicia H. Nordstrom, Lisa M. Swenson Goguen, and Marnie Hiester begin by introducing an article that is based on a study they conducted to examine how levels of social anxiety effect adolescents behavior in their first year of college. The article starts off by explaining the fact that social anxiety has actually been reported to be the cause of many students not being able to stay in college past their first year, and for some the first semester. This is explained in detail in the first paragraph when …show more content…
Therefore, their participation and attendance begin to decline. Lack of participation in college courses Is a definite recipe for failure, As the authors go on to explain in the second paragraph, ”Social anxiety predicted academic problems, such as lower grades, class absences due to a lack of participation, and fear of public speaking”(qtd. In Strahan, 2003), “as well as lower self-esteem and GPA in men” (qtd. in di Maria & di Nuovo, 1990).The practice of overcoming social fears is very important in the lives of those that deal with this mental disorder, because it not only affects personal relationships but their academics as well. The article then goes on to introduce another factor that is tied to the detrimental effects of social anxiety, self-esteem. Self-esteem is usually based on how someone views his/herself by reacting on the perception and feedback from their peers. “Kocovski and Endler found that students …show more content…
In Kocovski and Endler 2000). There have been contradicting results in identifying the relationship between social anxiety and self-esteem, however both have a huge impact on how college students are able to adjust to their new academic and social environments.” The tendency of socially anxious individuals to draw upon unrealistic constructions of external feedback as their benchmark of self-worth, combined with the negative consequences of self-esteem on college adjustment, places this population at risk for adjustment problems during the college transition (qtd. In Crocker, 2002).The study that the authors conducted in is introduced in the next paragraph by stating the three main goals that the researchers hoped to achieve in conducting this study on social anxiety. The first goal that they examined was ”how social anxiety affects the academic, social, emotional, and institutional adjustment to college in first-semester students and the role of self-esteem in this process”( Nordstrom, Goguen, and Hiester
In this article titled “The Effect of Social Anxiety and Self-Esteem on College Adjustment, Academics, and Retention”, the Authors Alicia H. Nordstrom, Lisa M. Swenson Goguen, and Marnie Hiester begin by introducing an article that is based on a study they conducted to examine how levels of social anxiety effect adolescents behavior in their first year of college. The article starts off by explaining the fact that social anxiety has actually been reported to be the cause of many students not being able to stay in college past their first year, and for some the first semester. This is explained in detail in the first paragraph when …show more content…
Therefore, their participation and attendance begin to decline. Lack of participation in college courses Is a definite recipe for failure, As the authors go on to explain in the second paragraph, ”Social anxiety predicted academic problems, such as lower grades, class absences due to a lack of participation, and fear of public speaking”(qtd. In Strahan, 2003), “as well as lower self-esteem and GPA in men” (qtd. in di Maria & di Nuovo, 1990).The practice of overcoming social fears is very important in the lives of those that deal with this mental disorder, because it not only affects personal relationships but their academics as well. The article then goes on to introduce another factor that is tied to the detrimental effects of social anxiety, self-esteem. Self-esteem is usually based on how someone views his/herself by reacting on the perception and feedback from their peers. “Kocovski and Endler found that students …show more content…
In Kocovski and Endler 2000). There have been contradicting results in identifying the relationship between social anxiety and self-esteem, however both have a huge impact on how college students are able to adjust to their new academic and social environments.” The tendency of socially anxious individuals to draw upon unrealistic constructions of external feedback as their benchmark of self-worth, combined with the negative consequences of self-esteem on college adjustment, places this population at risk for adjustment problems during the college transition (qtd. In Crocker, 2002).The study that the authors conducted in is introduced in the next paragraph by stating the three main goals that the researchers hoped to achieve in conducting this study on social anxiety. The first goal that they examined was ”how social anxiety affects the academic, social, emotional, and institutional adjustment to college in first-semester students and the role of self-esteem in this process”( Nordstrom, Goguen, and Hiester