The effectiveness of group cognitive behavioral therapy on quality of life and psychological well-being in patients with social anxiety disorder

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• Alireza Safaee ¹
• Majid Barzegar ²

¹ Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Marvdasht, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University Marvdasht Branch, Marvdasht, Iran.

10.30495/jpmm.2023.29611.3559

Abstract

Introduction: The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of group cognitive behavioral therapy on quality of life and psychological well-being in patients with social anxiety disorder. This research is a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and its statistical population includes students of Shiraz State University and Farhangian University of Fars Province living in Shiraz in 2020-2021 studying in which available sampling was used.

Methods: Thirty subjects with the highest level of anxiety were identified among the respondents and randomly assigned to the control and experimental groups. The research instruments included the WHO Quality of Life Questionnaire - Short Form, Reef Form Psychological Welfare Questionnaire 18 questions, Watson and Friend Social Anxiety Questionnaire which were completed by participants in two stages of pre-test and post-test. The experimental group received 12 sessions of 60 minutes of group cognitive-behavioral therapy interventions and the control group did not receive any treatment.

Results: After analyzing the data with spss-23 software, the results showed that the value of F in the score after the quality of life test] (p <0.001, F = 37.554 and that the value of F in the score after the psychological well-being test] (001 P = 0.04, [446/34] was significant, so the results showed a significant and positive difference in quality of life and psychological well-being between the experimental and control groups.

Keywords

• group cognitive behavioral therapy
• social anxiety
• quality of life
• psychological well-being

Main Subjects

• Psychological Models and Methods

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