Comparison of the Effectiveness of Positive Thinking Skills Training and Acceptance / Commitment Therapy on Self- Disability of Shy Female Students

 The aim of this study was to compare the effectiveness of positive thinking skills training and acceptance / commitment therapy on self- disability of shy girl students.

 The statistical population of this quasi-experimental research included all the female high school students in Tabriz in the academic year 2020-2021; as many as 45 shy students were randomly selected by using a multistage cluster purposive sampling technique, and the samples were then randomly assigned into two groups i.e. experimental and control (15 people in each group). Groups completed the Jones & Rudwalt (1982) Self-Disability Questionnaire as the pre-test and post-test. Positive Thinking and acceptance / commitment therapy skills training (eight sessions, two sessions per week for 4 weeks) was conducted in the experimental groups. The results were analyzed using multivariate and univariate analysis of covariance.

 Both positive thinking skills training and acceptance and commitment therapy had significant effects on the self- disability (p < 0.001); in comparison to to positive thinking skills, acceptance / commitment therapy had a greater effect on reducing self- disability (p < 0.001).

  Given the superiority of the effectiveness of acceptance / commitment therapy to reducing self- disability of shy female students, it is recommended the use this  technique.