The Effect of Communal Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy Over Addiction Potential and Addiction Tendency of Students Suffering from Social Phobia

Abstract

The aim and background: This present research has been done in order to review the effectiveness of communal behaviouralcognitive
therapy over addiction potential and tendency of Shahed university students suffering from social phobia. The method of
research: This research is a study over clinical trial. The sample of research included 30 students of Shahed University who had got the
highest score according to social phobia test on SPIN and suffering from social phobia. Before entering into therapy, these students
responded to both addiction potential questionnaire (APS) and addiction acknowledgment questionnaire (AAS). After being
homogenized, the samples divided into two groups of control and experimental. The experimental group placed under train of
behavioural-cognitive therapy over 20 sessions and the control group did not place under any training program. The data collection
instrument was self reporting which was analysed, using the descriptive statistics, the correlation coefficient, the covariance analysis and
SPSS 19 software. Findings: There has been a significant different between addiction potential and addiction tendency while entering
into research, after therapy and 6 weeks later, but from this view, no significant difference was observed in control group. It means that
behavioural-cognitive therapy has effect on reduction of addiction potential and tendency.