ABSTRACT: The purpose of this study was to examine the construct validity and reliability of social anxiety using SEM. The subjects in this study were 150 Papuan college students who are studying in Yogyakarta. The scale in the study uses a social anxiety scale created by the researcher by referring to aspects of social anxiety from Greca and Lopez (1998). The scale arranged in the form of a semantic differential scale based on its aspects of 30 statements containing two adjectives that contradict each other with the response level used ranges from 1 to 4. The scale of this study was analyzed using Structural Equation Model (SEM) software AMOS version 24. The results showed that there were 6 valid and reliable statements.
KEYWORDS – College Students, Structural Equation Model, Social Anxiety, Validity, Reliability.