Abstract
Objective: The effectiveness of the Social Anxiety Program on Adolescent Twins investigated in this study. Method: The study is a mixed-method study using a one-group pretest-posttest design, together with the qualitative method. First, Intraclass Correlation Coefficient used to find out the concordance and differentiation level of the twins’ social anxiety. Because monozygotic twins’ concordance rate is higher than dizygotic twins, four pair female monozygotic twins aged 17-18 participated in the group. Wilcoxon Single Ranks Test used to analyze the experimental part of the research. Three sessions of focus groups held after the program. Content analysis techniques used as a qualitative analysis. Result: As a result, there was a statistically significant difference between pre/post-program. Since this difference was in favor of initial measurement, the program interpreted as being effective. Themes also supported the quantitative results. Conclusion: Findings obtained from both experimental and qualitative parts discussed. Suggestions provided for future researcher.
Highlights
1.1 Introduce the ProblemTwin adolescents have different emotional needs than singletons and they may have troubles that make development difficult for them (Sandbank, 2006a)
This study aims at reducing the social anxiety of twins with an intervention program for social anxiety
A significant difference was observed in favor of negative ranks between pretest/posttest scores received on the scale by adolescent twins
Summary
1.1 Introduce the ProblemTwin adolescents have different emotional needs than singletons and they may have troubles that make development difficult for them (Sandbank, 2006a). The leading points among these reasons are family (parents that have difficulty in reaching an agreement on important decisions during child-raising), personality traits, and fear of negative evaluation which are common among twins as well as singletons, while socialization processes and ultimate closeness between twins are causes of social anxiety specific to twins. Genetics is another common element, which is a variable found at different dimensions in singletons and twins. As this study only focuses on twins, the causes associated with social anxiety in twins were investigated
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