TY - BOOK AU - Dina Youssri Afifi AU - Amany Ahmed Abdou , AU - Emad Hamdi Ghoz , TI - Social anxiety among Egyptian University students / PY - 2012/// CY - Cairo : PB - Dina Youssri Afifi , KW - Functional impairment KW - Social phobia KW - University students N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Neuropsy Chiatry; Issued also as CD N2 - The aim of the work is to study the prevalence , severity , demographic variables of social anxiety disorder in a convenience sample of Egyptian university students and its impact on their academic achievement . 300 undergraduate University students were assessed to detect social anxiety and quantify its severity using the standardized measure of Present State Examination , Symptom checklist prepared from DSM-IV-TR diagnostic criteria for anxiety disorders , Liebowitz Social Anxiety Scale (LSAS) and Raulin and Wee Social Fear Scale (R&W) ER -