The Effect of social skills education program of being able to cope with shyness on level of adolescents' shyness

ABSTRACTTHE EFFECT OF SOCIAL SKILLS EDUCATION PROGRAM OF BEING ABLE TOCOPE WITH SHYNESS ON LEVEL OF ADOLESCENTS? SHYNESSTutku KOZANOĞLUThesis of Post graduation, Educational Sciences DivisionCounselor: Prof. Dr. Banu İNANÇSeptember 2006, 81 PagesThe aim of this study is to examine the effect of the education of coping with shyness which isgiven by group on the level of adolescents? shyness.At the study, half experimental pattern with the pretest-last test controlled group has beenused. 15 subjects have been assigned to each of experiment and control groups and during the study nosubject loss has come into being. So that sampling, as from the students of 10th grade of ÇağrıbeyHigh School 15 of them in experiment and 15 of them in control group, has consisted of 30 students.With the aim of collecting data at the research, ?Shyness Scale? which has been adopted intoour language by Güngör (2001) has been used. Pretest data had been obtained 15 days before theexperimental study began, last test data was obtained after the 10 weeks education. With the aim ofdetermining whether the change which is observed after the experimental study, 15 weeks after theending of the experimental viewing study has been done. Skill education program has been applied toexperiment group one hour in a week for 10 weeks. Meanwhile no process has been applied to controlgroup.As pretest points of experiment and control group aren?t equal, last test points differencewhich has been included to analysis whose pretest points are covariant has been examined bycovariance analysis technique. The points of groups? pretest, last test and viewing test has beenexamined by ANOVA in marked repetition measurements.Results have pointed out that Social Skills Education Program of Being Able to Cope WithShyness which is applied by group experience has meaningful effect on shyness levels and havepointed out that this result which has come out has continued 15 weeks after.Key words: Shyness, Social Skills.