Conclusion

According to the results obtained, it can be concluded that the female gender from ages 14-19 are generally more susceptible to social phobia as compared to the male gender from the same age group.

As mentioned in the methodology, the first survey (conducted prior to the survey that had its obtained results used for this research) was invalid. It was mainly because the results obtained from the first survey were inadequate and unable to fulfill the main objective of the research. The initial objective of the research was to find out how social phobia affects self-esteem of people. However, it was found that knowledge on how to measure self-esteem levels of people was required and could not be achieved from the results of the first survey. Professional advice was needed on how measurements of self-esteem levels could be done but this was not accomplished until the survey was conducted. Therefore, a conclusion could not be reached from the obtained results from the first survey. On top of that, the survey could not be improvised as it would be difficult to approach and identify the people with social phobia as it might be a sensitive issue to some of them. As a result, the objective of the research was changed while maintaining its purpose – to help people with social phobia in the society. Refer to Appendix 2 for the results of the first survey.

After finding out that females are more susceptible to social phobia, future possible areas of research would be to find out the reason behind this susceptibility. Another possible area of research would be to find out why adolescents are more prone to social phobia than adults. Lastly, it would be to find ways to cure social phobia, thereby achieving the purpose of the research, which was to help the people with social phobia.

An interesting finding from the results of the second survey is that the most common fear that people have is speaking in public. This corresponds with results from previous researches carried out which showed that public speaking is the most common fear in the world, affecting as much as 75% of the population, even ranked above the fear of death. Further research could thus be conducted to find out how to solve the problem of speaking in public. With the increasing need in today’s world to make presentations and speaking in public, it is important that this fear can be readily overcome. Social phobia is also a mental disorder which people have. Therefore it is just as important to find ways to ensure that social phobia has a cure, and for people to know more about social phobia, so as to understand it and ultimately overcome it.