Seyyed Abolghasem Mehri Nejad
Abstract
Shyness is significant trait that influences wildly internal and external disorders in adolescents. This study investigated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in the treatment of shyness and assertiveness failure puberty girls. The research method was quasi-experimental design with ...
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Shyness is significant trait that influences wildly internal and external disorders in adolescents. This study investigated the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy in the treatment of shyness and assertiveness failure puberty girls. The research method was quasi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test with two experimental and control groups. The population of the study is all female high school students (school year 95-94) (7th and 8th grades) that studied in Regions 7 and 3 in Tehran. 4 schools were selected using simple random sampling. After a test run shyness and assertiveness in the 4 schools, 30 people who agreed to receive 10 sessions of treatment were selected in available and randomly assigned to two experimental and control group. For experimental groups 10 one-hour sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was performed. Then both groups were post analysis of covariance was used to analyze the test data. The findings showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy have had significant effect to reduce shyness and increase assertiveness (P <0/001). According to the findings of this study, cognitive therapy based on mindfulness as an effective treatment to reduce Shyness and increase the skills of assertiveness.
Nasrin Goodarzy; Shahroukh Makvand hosseini; Ali Rezaei; Afzal Akbari balootbangan
Volume 5, Issue 17 , May 2015, , Pages 121-136
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of life skills training applying storytelling on the shyness of 5th grade elementary school children. An experimental pretest, posttest with control group paradigm was administered. The study sample consisted 39 children (experimental= ...
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of life skills training applying storytelling on the shyness of 5th grade elementary school children. An experimental pretest, posttest with control group paradigm was administered. The study sample consisted 39 children (experimental= 20, control= 19) who were chosen in one school in Tehran city in a volunteer basis and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. A measure of shyness was collected using Stanford Shyness Scale in pretest stage of the study. Consequently, subjects in the experimental group received 13 sessions of life skills training by storytelling method, whereas no intervention was made in control group. After two weeks all subjects again were filled Stanford Shyness Scale and data were extracted from scales. The dataset was then analyzed by analysis of covariance (ANCOVA). Result reveled a significant difference between 2 groups. The life skills training decreased mean of shyness (p
