Sexual dysfunctional beliefs in relationship with shyness among young adults

The present study deals with exploring the relationship between shyness and dysfunctional beliefs among young adults. A total of 400 young adults of the age 18 to 25 years (200 males and 200 females) were selected a simple random sampling technique, was drawn from in and around Mysore City. They were administered multidimensional dysfunctional belief developed by Nobre and Gouveia (2003), and shyness assessment test - SAT developed by D’Souza (2006). To find out the mutual relationship between domains of sexual dysfunctional belief and domains of shyness, Pearson’s product moment method was applied. Results revealed that sexual dysfunctional beliefs and shyness and significantly and positively related to each other more for male respondents than female respondents. Specifically sexual conservatism, sexual desire and pleasure as a sin, body-image beliefs, denying affection primacy and total dysfunctional beliefs were significantly and positively related to shyness among female respondents. In the case of male respondents only total dysfunctional belief scores were significantly and positively to shyness.