فـــاعليــــــة الإرشــــــــاد السلــــوكي التــــــــوكيــــــــدي في خفض أعراض القلق الاجتماعي لدى طلاب المرِحلة الثانوية

Abstract

     The present study aims at investigating the effectiveness of Emphatic behavioral counseling to prevent symptoms of social anxiety among high school students. The researcher has used the quasi-experimental approach. The sample of the study consists of 330 students of secondary schools at Buraida. The controlling sample consists of 20 students of secondary schools out of those who had high scores on the social anxiety symptoms scale by the intentional method. They have been divided equally into two groups; experimental and controlling.  The controlling group with a mean of the age of (16.48) and a standard deviation of (1.2). The study tools are: the demographic questionnaire, the social anxiety scale, and the behavioural counselling programme to reduce symptoms of social anxiety all of which have been prepared by the researcher. The results of the study indicate that the level of symptoms of social anxiety is greater than the hypothetical average. This indicates the existence of statistically significant differences in the experimental average degree of the basic sample at the level of medium average. Also, it indicates that there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.01) between the mean scores of the experimental group students in the pre and post-test regarding the symptoms of the social anxiety scale; (Behavioral symptoms, cognitive symptoms, and physiological symptoms).  The total score of the scale is in favor of the post-test. It also indicates that there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.01) between the mean scores of the students of the experimental and controlling groups in the post application of the Social Anxiety Symptoms Scale (total score) in favor of the experimental group. The results indicate that there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.01) between the mean scores of the experimental group students in the post and follow-up test regarding the symptoms of the social anxiety scale (behavioral symptoms, cognitive symptoms, and physiological symptoms) and the total score of the scale is in favor of the follow-up test.