Nakhaei S, Okati A, Ranjbar Noori H, Mir A. Evaluating the effect of emotion control on students' positivethinking about social anxiety. JNIP 2022; 13 (17)
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Assistant professor, Department of Psychology faculty of human sciences , Zabol Branch, Islamic Azad university zabol, iran
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The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of emotion control on students' positive thinking about social anxiety. The method of the present study was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The population of the study included high school students with social anxiety disorder who referred to educational and clinical centers in Zahedan in the academic year 1401-1400. 40 students were selected by available sampling method and then each of them was replaced by random sampling in two experimental (n = 20) and control (n = 20) groups. The instruments were employed in this study included, Ingram and Wisnicki positive thinking questionnaire, Lajersa social anxiety questionnaire and emotion control training. Emotion control training was provided to the experimental group in 8 sessions which each session eas 90 minutes, but the control group did not receive training. Research data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance. The findings of this study showed that emotion control has effect on students' positive thinking about social anxiety; In such a way that the subjects in the experimental group in the post-test stage have significantly more positive thinking and less social anxiety. According to the results, it is suggested that emotion control be used as one of the effective adjunctive therapies in improving positive thinking and reducing students' social anxiety.
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Special Received: 2022/07/13 | Accepted: 2022/09/1 | Published: 2022/09/1