EFFECT OF COGNITIVE BEHAVIOURAL THERAPY ON SHYNESS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN ABOH MBAISE LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF IMO STATE
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Considering the obvious devastating impacts of shyness on students’ social, psychological and academic wellbeing, it is quite disheartening that little or no attention is being paid to the problem, especially among secondary school students in Aboh Mbaise local government area, in particular, and Imo state in general. Therefore, this study investigated the effect of cognitive behavioural therapy on shyness among secondary school students in Aboh Mbaise local government area of Imo state. Two research questions guided the study, while two null hypotheses were posed and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The pre-test post-test control-group quasi-experimental research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was a total of 884 junior and senior (JSS2 and SS2) students identified with shyness from all public secondary schools in Aboh Mbaise local government area. Purposive sampling technique was used to choose a sample size of 67 students with the highest pre-test scores in the shyness measuring instrument. The researchers used a standardised instrument called Revised Cheek and Buss Shyness Scale (RCBS) for collection of data for this study. Data collected for this study were analysed using mean and ANCOVA. Results obtained from the study showed that cognitive behavioural therapy was significantly effective in reducing shyness among the participants. The results also revealed that cognitive behavioural therapy was significantly more effective in reducing shyness among the male secondary school students than their female counterparts. Based on the findings of this study, it was recommended among others, that secondary school counsellors should adopt cognitive behavioural therapy as a means of curbing the problem of shyness among their students since the therapy has been found to be significantly effective.
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