Akbar Hemmati-Sābet; Javād Khal’atbari; Dāryūsh Amini
Volume 2, Issue 6 , February 2012, , Pages 169-189
Abstract
Background: Since medical treatment is used in social phobia disorder, group training of stress managementand cognitive group therapy is used for the purpose of reducing students’ social phobia.
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of group training of stress managementand ...
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Background: Since medical treatment is used in social phobia disorder, group training of stress managementand cognitive group therapy is used for the purpose of reducing students’ social phobia.
Objectives: The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of group training of stress managementand group cognitive therapy in reducing students’ social phobia.
Method: As a quasi –experimental study, this study has been conducted to compare the effectiveness of group training on stress management and cognitive group therapy concerning university student's social phobia. The research community in this study was the boy students of accounting in Islamic Azad University of Hamadan. A sample including 45 people were selected from the research community and were put randomly in three groups of group training of stress management, cognitive group therapy and control group. The data gathering tools in this study was Watson & Fred stress and avoidance questionnaire. Stress and avoidance questionnaire was used for the pretest and posttest; group training of stress management and cognitive group therapy held ten 1.5-hour sessions per week, with control group receiving no therapy. For the descriptive analysis of data, statistical indicators like mean, standard deviation and in deductive statistic, covariance analysis were used.
Results: The result of ANCOVA showed that after adjusting for pretest there was a significant difference between the three group means (F(1,41)=18/139, p<0.0005). Also the investigation of the adjusted means suggested that group training of stress management is more effective than cognitive group therapy; symptoms of the two experimental groups showed a greater reduction in post-test in comparison with those of the control group.
Conclusion: The research results showed that group training of stress managementand group cognitive therapy are both effective in reducing students’ social phobia.
