The Effects of Emotion Efficacy Therapy on Coping Self-Efficacy and Focus of Attention in 15-16 Years-Old Girl Students with Social Anxiety
Subject Areas : EducationalMasumeh Hayati 1 , manijeh shehniyailagh 2 , molod keykhosrovani 3
1 - Department of Psychology, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran.
2 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of General Psychology, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran.
Keywords: Emotion efficacy therapy, focus of attention, coping self-efficacy, 15-16 years-old girl students, social anxiety,
Abstract :
The purpose of this research was to determine the effects of emotion efficacy therapy on coping self-efficacy and focus of attention in 15-16 years-old girl students with social anxiety. The design of the research was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test type with a control group and a follow-up phase. The statistical population includes all female students of the second secondary level, aged 15 to 16, in Borazjan city, who studied in the year 2021-2022. Social Anxiety Questionnaire (Connor et al., 2000) was completed by the students and 40 students whose social anxiety scores were higher than other subjects were selected and randomly assigned to experimental group (20 subjects) and control group (20 subjects). Coping Efficacy (Chesney et al., 2006) and Focus of Attention (Woody et al., 1997) scales were completed in the pre-test. The experimental group received emotion efficacy therapy in 8 sessions of 70 minutes, and the control group did not receive any intervention. After the last session, the post-test was performed, and one month later the follow-up was carried out. Multivariate Analysis of Covariance and SPSS-26 software was used to analyze the data. The results showed that the emotion efficacy therapy has an effect on the focus of attention and coping self-efficacy of female students with social anxiety (p < 0.0001) and can both reduce self-focused attention and increase external attention and coping self-efficacy.
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