Autoeficacia y ansiedad social en adolescentes.

Abstract

The present investigation denominated “self-efficacy and social anxiety in teenagers” has as an objective identify the characteristics differentials of the self-efficacy and social anxiety in the adolescence, in a sample of 180 students in the ages between 14-17 years old in the city of Loja. The survey had a quantitative approach, descriptive scope, correlational and transversal. The instruments used were Scale of General Self-efficacy of Baessler and Schwarzer, and the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A). It has been used the software SPSS 24.0 The main results indicate that: 1) the highest percentage of teenagers present high level of self-efficacy and low level of social anxiety; 2) the self-efficacy and the social anxiety have a significantly negative relationship (inverse). And finally, 3) the relation between both variables depending on sex was negative both in teenager men and in teenager women. Suggesting that in adolescence the high level of self-efficacy relate with the low level of social anxiety and inverse.