Book Description
The main thrust of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Program (CBIP) in the alleviation of social anxiety among college freshmen. The researcher utilized the Pretest Posttest Control Group Design. One hundred sixty-five college freshmen were pretested using the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A). Thirty six (36) participants with high social anxiety score (cut off score of>50) were chosen and were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. The Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Program (CBIP) given to the experimental group is composed of 2-hour 12 sessions aimed at alleviating the participants' social anxiety. Paired T-test was used to determine the significant differences between the pretest and posttest scores of both the control and experimental groups. Independent t-test was used to determine the significant difference in mean reduction scores between experimental and control group. Cohen's d was done to determine the extent of the effectiveness of the intervention program. Findings revealed that the post intervention scores of the participants in the two research groups decreased. The mean post intervention scores of the experimental group is significantly lower than the control group (44.00 vs 50.89). Furthermore, sixteen (16) out of the eighteen (18) or 88.9% of the participants in the experimental group had post intervention scores of below 50 while for the control group only ten (10) out of the eighteen (18) of 55.6% had post intervention scores of below 50. The Cohen's d was calculated to determine extent of effectiveness of the intervention. The computed Cohen's d equals 1.28, which suggests that effect size of the intervention is large. These findings indicate that the Cognitive Behavioral Intervention Program is an effective modality in the alleviation of social anxiety among participants.