Social anxiety and its relationship to the level of psychological and social compatibility among a sample of graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Damascus in light of the Corona pandemic

Abstract

The aim of the research is to identify the level of social anxiety and the level of psychological and social compatibility of the members of the research sample of graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Damascus. And the disclosure of the relationship between social anxiety and psychological and social compatibility of members of the research sample of graduate students in the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences at the University of Damascus. And measuring the differences between the average scores of the research sample on the social anxiety scale and the psychological and social compatibility scale according to two variables: (gender, academic level). The research was based on the descriptive and analytical method. The research sample consisted of (326) male and female postgraduate students at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Damascus. The researcher used the scale of social anxiety prepared by "Connor" and others (Connor et al., 2000), which consists of (22) items, and the scale of interpretive and social compatibility prepared by the researcher, and it consists of (50) items. The research concluded the following results: The level of social anxiety among the members of the research sample of postgraduate students in the College of Arts and Humanities at the University of Damascus was high with a score of (3.58), and the level of psychological and social compatibility among the members of the research sample of postgraduate students in the College of Arts and Sciences Humanity at Damascus University was an average score (3.27). The existence of a negative correlation relationship with statistical significance between the scores of the individuals of the research sample on the scale of social anxiety and their scores on the scale of disjunctive and social compatibility. The absence of statistically significant differences between the average scores of the research sample on the social anxiety scale according to the gender variable, and the presence of statistically significant differences between the average scores of the research sample on the social anxiety scale according to the academic level variable in favor of students whose academic level was (diploma and master's qualification The specialization), and the existence of differences between the mean scores of students ’responses to the psychosocial compatibility scale due to the gender variable in favor of female students, and the existence of statistically significant differences between the average scores of the research sample on the psychological and social compatibility scale according to the academic level variable in favor of students whose academic level (PhD).