Studying the effectiveness of problem solving skills training on social anxiety, self-efficacy, quality of academic life and motivational beliefs of 6th grade female students with clinical symptoms of social anxiety

Studying the effectiveness of problem solving skills training on social anxiety, self-efficacy, quality of academic life and motivational beliefs of 6th grade female students with clinical symptoms of social anxiety

A randomized, open-label, controlled clinical trial on 40 patients. The rand function of Excel was used for randomization.

To select the sample, cluster random sampling method was used. First, from the four education districts of Ahvaz city, two districts were randomly selected and from each district, 5th graders and two sixth graders from each school were selected. Then, students who were selected by a clinical psychologist based on diagnostic and statistical criteria as students with social anxiety were selected. Finally, 40 of them were selected by simple random (lottery) to participate in the research.

Inclusion criteria for the study: 1- No serious physical illness 2- No participation in other psychotherapy sessions at least one month before the study 3- Social anxiety Exclusion criteria for the study: 1- Absence of more than two sessions 2- Participation in other psychotherapy sessions 3- Unwillingness to continue treatment

To select the sample, cluster random sampling method was used. First, two districts were randomly selected from four education districts and two sixth graders were selected from each school. Then, students who were selected by a clinical psychologist based on diagnostic and statistical criteria as students with social anxiety were selected. Finally, 40 of them were selected by simple random (lottery) to participate in the study (20 in the experimental group and 20 in the control group).

Problem-solving skills, social anxiety, self-efficacy, quality of academic life, motivational beliefs

To select a sample to diagnose social anxiety in students, a cluster random sampling method was used. First, two districts were randomly selected from four education districts, and then five sixth grade girls' schools from each district, and in the next stage, two sixth graders from each school were selected. Then, after the students completed the social anxiety inventory, those whose scores on this questionnaire were one standard deviation above the mean and in a clinical interview conducted by a clinical psychologist based on the diagnostic and statistical criteria for mental disorders, fifth edition, were selected as students with social anxiety. Of these, 95 were eligible. Finally, randomly selected students whose social anxiety score on the social anxiety inventory was one standard deviation above the mean in the previous stage also showed symptoms of social anxiety in the clinical interview. 40 of them were selected by simple random drawing to participate in the study. Then, these individuals were assigned to the experimental and control groups by simple random selection.