The effect of the coping with the social anxiety program on the social anxiety levels of high school students

In this study, the relationship between social anxiety program and the high school students' social anxiety level were investigated. Dependent varriable was students' social anxiety level. Independent varriable was "Coping Program with Social Anxiety" which was planned by invastegater. It was spent 10 sessions. The population of this study consist of the high school students in Ankara. The saple of this study consist of the 54 students in Sincan Fatih Teknik Endüstri Meslek Lisesi which was randomly chosen. In order to measure social anxiety "Inventory of Self - Evaluation in Social Situations" was used. Before the application, validity of Inventory of Self - Evaluation in Social Situation is optained by using similar test method and its reliability is determined by means of test and re-test method on a group of 93 students. Data of the research has been tested through two-sided variation analyses method variation (ANOVA, the variation analyses appropriate for split plot technique with 3x2 factors) repeated data. Significance level was established at.05. According to the results of this research, a significant difference between the groups. After the implication, social anxiety level of experimental group was decrease. There was no significant differences in anxiety levels of control and plasebo groups. Results of that research has shown that the social skills training which based on cognitive-behavioral approach has been effective on coping with social anxiety in adolescents.