SDCA Journal of Psychology

Abstract

This study primarily aimed to discover the relationship between irrational beliefs and social anxiety of Grade 10 students from Batangas Eastern Colleges. The researchers decided to conduct this research to better explain the upshot of irrational beliefs. Social anxiety, being the most common type of anxiety, seemed to be the perfect complement to further understand irrational beliefs. This study utilized a descriptive-correlational design. Two hundred eighty-two (282) grade 10 students of Batangas Eastern Colleges were used as respondents through convenience sampling. The researchers administered the Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) to measure the social anxiety level while the Common Belief Inventory Scale was used to measure their irrational beliefs, then, Pearson r Moment Correlation Coefficient was used to treat the data. Results indicated a positive correlation, r280 = 0.24, p < 0.05. A figure lower than 0.05 gives rise to the rejection of the null hypothesis. An r value of 0.24 also indicates a positive association between the two variables which means as one level increases or decreases, so does the other. In conclusion, there is a significant relationship between social anxiety and irrational beliefs. Moreover, results also revealed a positive association between social anxiety and irrational beliefs which means both levels of each variable move in tandem.

Keywords: Social anxiety, irrational beliefs, correlation.