The Effect of Wells Metacognitive Therapy on Specific Characteristics of Social Anxiety in ‎Female Students with Social Anxiety Disorder

Present research, The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy of Wales ‎Metacognitive Therapy on specific symptoms of social anxiety in female students with social ‎anxiety disorder.‎

The design of this semi-educational study was carried out with a pre-test, ‎post-test and follow up with the control group. The statistical population of this study included ‎all students of Gachsaran universities and In this research, 300 students were selected using ‎social anxiety inventory. Then those whose anxiety scores were two standard deviations higher ‎than the mean, Separated and among them considering the likelihood of the participants ‎dropping, 60 subjects were randomly selected and randomly assigned to 30 experimental and ‎control groups. Social Anxiety Inventory was performed in three stages: pre-test, post-test and ‎follow-up for the groups. Following the implementation of ethical considerations (informed ‎consent, inclination, secrecy), The experimental group received metacognitive therapy and the ‎control group received no treatment. The obtained data were analyzed using descriptive ‎statistics and covariance analysis and analyzed using SPSS software.‎

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