The Effect of Wells Metacognitive Therapy on Specific Characteristics of Social Anxiety in Female Students with Social Anxiety Disorder
Subject Areas : social psychologySIMA SAFIKHANI GHOLIZADEH 1 , armin mahmoudi 2 , alireza maredpur 3
1 - Department of Management, Yasooj Branch , Islamic Azad University, Yasooj , Iran.
2 - Department of Educational and Psychology, Yasuj unit, Islamic Azad University, Yasuj, Iran.‎
3 - Department of Educational and Psychology, Yasuj unit, Islamic Azad University, Yasuj, Iran.‎
Keywords: Social Anxiety Disorder&lrm, , Wells Metacognitive Therapy, female students,
Abstract :
Present research, The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of Wales Metacognitive Therapy on specific symptoms of social anxiety in female students with social anxiety disorder.Research method: The design of this semi-educational study was carried out with a pre-test, post-test and follow up with the control group. The statistical population of this study included all students of Gachsaran universities and In this research, 300 students were selected using social anxiety inventory. Then those whose anxiety scores were two standard deviations higher than the mean, Separated and among them considering the likelihood of the participants dropping, 60 subjects were randomly selected and randomly assigned to 30 experimental and control groups. Social Anxiety Inventory was performed in three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow-up for the groups. Following the implementation of ethical considerations (informed consent, inclination, secrecy), The experimental group received metacognitive therapy and the control group received no treatment. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and covariance analysis and analyzed using SPSS software.Findings: The results of covariance analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the two groups in all of the components in the post test (P
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