Studying the effectiveness of positive psychology on social phobia of pessimistic children

Zahra khademi Astaneh¹

1) Master of School Counseling, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil branch,

IOI Code : XEBH-HDABD
Publication : 2nd National Conference on Clinical Psychology of Children and Adolescents(cpcauma2.ir)
Abstract :
    The purpose of the current research is to study the effectiveness of positive psychology on the social phobia of children with pessimistic characteristics. The research method is quantitative and practical in nature. , have been selected by referring to Cohen s table. The findings showed that pessimistic children suffer from severe social anxiety due to pessimism towards others and the fear of being evaluated negatively, and they do not want to be in the crowd, as well as children with Due to social anxiety, they suffer from extreme pessimism and have lower mental health compared to normal children and have very low leadership power, thus they have a strong fear of being in a group and taking over the leadership of the group. To remove the pessimism of these children, the intervention method of self-actualization training, which is one of the best models of positive psychology, was used, in such a way that after obtaining the scores from the pessimism test, the children were divided into two groups, the control group and the experimental group. They received self-actualization training for 8 sessions, but the control group e did not receive any intervention, after 8 sessions of training, the pessimism test was taken again from both groups. The results indicated that the children who received self-actualization training had much better and lower grades than the children who did not receive any intervention. so we concluded that positive psychology is very effective in reducing children s social anxiety because (p<0.05), in this way, the data were analyzed using SPSS software and the Chemo-Bartlett test was used. To obtain the homogeneity of the regression slope, which is one of the prerequisites for the Bartlett s Kimo test, the univariate covariance test was used.

Keywords : positive psychology social phobia children pessimistic trait