How does social anxiety affect the academic success of a college student? Social anxiety disorder, also called social phobia, is a disorder in which a person has an excessive and unreasonable fear of social situations. Social anxiety causes intense nervousness, and self-consciousness comes from the fear of being closely watched, judged, and criticized by others. People with social anxiety disorder become anxious about making mistakes, feel terrible, and feel humiliated in front of others. The fear becomes immense due to lack of social skills or experience in social situations. As a result, people experience extreme discomfort in certain social situations and try to avoid them. People with social anxiety disorder have distorted thoughts, including false beliefs about themselves and social situations. They have an immense fear of others' negative opinion about them and this fear mainly affects a person's academic life. Students living with this disorder begin to fear situations, such as participating in class, making friends, speaking in public, or giving presentations, forcing them to face loneliness and teachers' negative perceptions of them. In addition to this, students become unable to properly display their skills and are known as the dunce by others. Even if they are very creative or have mastery over specific things, they ask others to show up for them or appear on the screen instead of expressing their skills through them. himself. They do not participate in the lesson, they never dare to talk to their teacher, weakening the student-teacher bond which shows lack of trust, social anxiety produces immense fear and worry which absorbs the available mental capacity of a student making him unfit to show its full potential , allowing teachers and the classroom...... middle of paper......7/0165025409350959Robinson, B.W. (1966). A study of anxiety and academic performance. Journal of psychological counseling. doi:10.1037/h0023186 Social anxiety disorder and social phobia: symptoms, self-help and treatment. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.helpguide.org/mental/social_anxiety_support_symptom_causes_treatment.htmShyness. (2013, February 28). Retrieved from http://www.apa.org/topics/shyness/index.aspxOwens, M., Stevenson, J., Hadwin, J. A., & Norgate, R. (2012). Anxiety and depression in academic performance: An exploration of the mediating factors of worry and working memory. School Psychology International, 33, 433–449Dobson (2013, April 3). Social anxiety and academic performance. Retrieved May 18, 2014, from https://www.nmu.edu/education/sites/DrupalEducation/files/UserFiles/Dobson_Cassie_MM.pdfDaceny and Kenny (1997). Adolescent development.