Effects of Systematic Desensitization and Modelling Counselling Techniques on Social anxiety among Undergraduate National Certificate in Education Students in Kano State Nigeria
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https://doi.org/10.64348/zije.2026264Abstract
This study investigates the effects of Systematic Desensitisation and Modelling Counselling Techniques on social anxiety among students of NCE awarding Institutions in Kano State Nigeria. The objectives of the study are to find out the effects of Systematic Desensitisation and Modelling counselling techniques on the physiological, cognitive and behavoiural dimensions of social anxiety. Six null hypotheses were raised and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a quasi-experimental design in the form of pretest and posttest design. The population consists of all NCE II students of Federal College of Education Kano and Federal College of Education (Technical) Bichi identified with social anxiety, there are 3,913 NCE 2 students in both schools out of which 196 students were identified with social anxiety. 60 students were sampled from the identified students who participated in the study. Two data collection instruments were used for the study; Validated Students Social Anxiety Checklist (SSAC) with reliability index of 0.861 was used for identification, while validated Social Anxiety Inventory (SAI) with reliability index of 0.936 was used for pretest and posttest. Paired sampled t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The result revealed that both Systematic Desensitisation and Modelling Counselling Techniques are effective in reducing social anxiety across the three dimensions. The study recommends that schools and counsellors should adopt both Counselling techniques in helping students manage social anxiety.
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