EFFECT OF SOCIAL SKILLS TRAINING ON SOCIAL PHOBIA AMONG JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN MOKWA LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF NIGER STATE, NIGERIA
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This study examined effect of social skills training on social phobia among junior secondary school students in Mokwa Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria. Three hypotheses were formulated and tested at 0.05 levels of significance. Quasi experimental design involving pre-test and post-test experimental group design was used for the study. The population of the study comprised 54 junior secondary school (JSS II) students identified with social phobia in sampled school in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State. Twenty (20) students with social phobia were selected and used for the study through the use of purposive sampling technique. Social Phobia Observational Checklist (SPOC) was used to identify students with social phobia and Social Phobia Scale (SPS) was used for collection of data for this study. The psychometric property of SPS was 0.81. The data collected were analyzed, frequency counts and percentage were used to presents demographic information of the respondents and t-test statistics was used to test null hypotheses at 0.05 levels of significance. The findings revealed that there is significant effect of social skills training on cognitive symptoms of social phobia among junior secondary school students in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State; there is significant effect of social skills training on physiological manifestation of social phobia among junior secondary school students in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State; and there is significant effect of social skills training on social interactions avoidance among junior secondary school students in Paikoro Local Government Area of Niger State. Based on the findings of this study, the researchers recommended among others that school guidance counsellors and psychologists, school principals, and teachers should be encouraged to use social skills training in addressing students with social phobia; and school guidance counsellors and educational psychologists should sensitize educators, para-psychologists, social workers and school heads/principals in the use of social skills training in addressing social phobia.
Keywords: Social, Phobia, Skills, Training and Students. .
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