The Relationship between Shyness and Local/Global Reading Comprehension.

Shyness may be defined experientially as excessive self-focus characterized by negative self-evaluation that creates discomfort and/or inhibition in social situations and interferes with pursuing one's interpersonal or professional goals. In the present study by employing the T-test and ANOVA, results indicated that shyness has effect on local/global reading comprehension. It further indicated that the correlation effect between the shyness and gender was significant. Therefore, males are better than females in local/global reading comprehension test. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]