The relationship between personality traits of nature-character and worry with social anxiety in adolescents

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between temperament and Character personality traits and worry with social anxiety in adolescents. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this research includes all 9th-grade girls in Tehran. The sample consisted of 302 female students who were selected through multi-stage random sampling. The instruments used in this study were Inventory Character and Temperament, Pennsylvania Worry Questionnaire, and Leibowitz Social Anxiety Scale. SPSS-22 software was used for data analysis. The findings  demonstrated that  there was a significant correlation between temperament personality traits (novelty seeking, r = -0.51; harm avoidance; r = 0.55; reward dependence; r = -.045 ; persistence,r = -0.59) and Social anxiety (p <0.05). There was a significant relationship between the Character personality traits (self-directiveness, r = -0.43; r, co-operativeness, r = -0.12; self-transcendence, r = -0.13) and social anxiety and worry (r = 0.55) (p <0.05). In summary, it can be concluded that temperament and Character personality traits and worry could play an important role in social anxiety.