Analyzing the effects of solution focused group psychological counseling upon university students’ coping with social phobia

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to analyze the effect of solution focused group psychological counseling upon university students’ coping with social phobia. The study group of the research included 32 students (16 female-50%, and 16 male-50%) determined randomly among 184 first grade students studying at Erzincan University, Faculty of Education in 2013-2014 academic year. Age average of the study group was 19.81. This research was an experimental study on Solomon four group design based upon real experimental model. In this study, Social Anxiety Scale, Interview Form and Personal Information Form were used as data collection tools. For the analysis of the obtained data, Wilcoxon Signed Rank test was used for related measurements, and Mann Whitney U-test was used for unrelated measurements. At the end of the research, it was determined that solution focused group counseling was efficient upon university students’ coping with social phobia. Moreover, this effect was specified to be actualized independently from maturity and time interaction and pretest effect.