The Effect of Wales Metacognitive Therapy on Quality of Life in Female Students with Social Anxiety Disorder in Gachsaran Universities

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

• SIMA SAFIKHANI GHOLIZADEH ¹
• Armin Mahmoudi ²
• ALIREZA maredpour ¹

¹ Department of Management, Yasooj Branch , Islamic Azad University, Yasooj , Iran.

² Armin Mahmoudi Dept. of Education & Psychology, Yasouj branch,Islamic Azad University, Yasooj, Iran

Abstract

Present study was carried out to determine the effectiveness of Wells metacognitive therapy on the ‎quality of life of female students with social anxiety disorder. The design of this research was Pseudo-‎experimental with pre-test and post-test design and follow up with two groups of control and ‎experiment. The statistical population consisted of all students of Gachsaran universities that was ‎conducted on 300 students with a questionnaire of social anxiety. Then, those whose anxiety scores ‎were two standard deviations greater than the average, among them by considering the likelihood of ‎the loss of the participants, were collected and 60 of them were randomly selected and randomly ‎assigned to 30 experimental and control groups. World Health Organization Quality of Life ‎Questionnaire was conducted in three stages: pre-test, post-test and follow-up for the groups. ‎Following the implementation of ethical considerations (informed consent, willingness, secrecy), The ‎experimental group received metacognitive therapy during 10 sessions of 2 hours and The control ‎group received no treatment. 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<0.5) and the results of ‎the experimental group in the post test were significantly lower than the control group. This also ‎applies to research components in the follow-up phase. Therefore, meta-cognitive therapy ‎significantly improved the quality of life of students with social anxiety in the post-test and the ‎sustainability of the treatment results in follow-up.‎

Keywords

• Wells meta-cognitive therapy
• Female students
• social anxiety disorder
• quality of life‎

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Main Subjects

• Psychological Models and Methods

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