Abstract

• The present study was intended to explore social anxiety as an important factor for understanding the relationship between social and academic functioning of adolescents. The numbers of subject were 300 subjects. Two types of questionnaires namely social anxiety scale (SAS) and social functioning questionnaire (SFQ) were used in this study. Only in the 9th grade, there was no relationship between academic functioning between social anxiety. For 10th grade, there was relationship between academic functioning and social anxiety. It showed that there was negative correlation between social anxiety and over all academic subjects. All urban area and rural area adolescents in this study have no differences in social anxiety.