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The present study aims to find the relationship differences of social anxiety and self esteem among male and female adolescent students in Pakistan. It was hypothesized that there would be a difference in the relationship of self esteem and social anxiety in males and female adolescents. A Correlational Study. Different Schools and Colleges of Karachi, 2011. A total of 210 adolescents including 86 males and 124 females served as the subjects of the study. To assess the social anxiety Interaction Anxiety Scale, Urdu version1 and for the evaluation of self esteem Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale translated version2 was employed. Descriptive Statistics was computed to analyze sample characteristics; and Pearson correlation coefficient was applied to determine the relationship of social anxiety and self esteem among male and female adolescents. Z correlation was also computed to find out if the gender difference in the relationship of social anxiety and self esteem is significant. The results indicate that there is gender difference between the associations of two variables but it is not significant. 16 Bano, Ahmad and All. Findings of the research do not support the role of gender difference in the relationship of self esteem and social anxiety
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The objective of the present study is to translate and adapt Brief Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale [BFNE; Leary, 1983] in national language [Urdu] and estimation of its psychometric properties. After the process of Forward, back translation and committee approach the linguistic equivalence of the translated version of the scale was assessed on a sample of 71 bilingual adolescent students with the age range of 16-19 years, randomly selected from different schools of Karachi. The estimate shows significant results [r- .614] at .01 significant level. The split half reliability estimate was found to be .788, which is significant at .01 probability level. The Cronbach's alpha of the Urdu version of the BFNE scale is .762 indicating considerable internal consistency of the translated version of BFNE. The Urdu version of BFNE has found to be a reliable scale for adolescents in Pakistan