The study examined personality and social factors as correlate of shyness among secondary school students in Rivers State. Two research questions and hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. A correlational design was adopted. The population consisted of 24 public secondary schools in Rivers State. 150,000 students in Emohua Local Government Area. The sample size comprised of 300 students in public secondary schools. Two instruments were used to collect data for this study. They include; student’s shyness scale (SSS) designed by Akinboye and Self-designed new personality inventory (PIA). Frequencies and percentages were sued in answering research questions while Spearman rank order correlation coefficient was sued in testing the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that there is a significant relationship between personality factors with shyness, gender and shyness among students in Rivers State. The study concluded that the more students develop confidence and possess the ability to adapt to any environment, the more shyness is minimized among students. Furthermore, women tend to assume more of a shy role in same-sex interactions compared to men who likely feel more societal pressure with initial hetero-social interactions. The researcher, therefore, recommended that students should always be given the avenue to socialize and interact with their peer group early in life, so as to enable them increase confidence in themselves, parents with low social economic status; secondary schools administrators should from time to time organize both indoors and outdoors competition for students. This will enable them build confidence in themselves.