A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VISUAL GUIDED IMAGERY ON SOCIAL ANXIETY AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE AGE GROUP OF 13- 17 YEARS AT SELECTED SCHOOLS, PUDUCHERRY

Mrs. V. Revathy

Volume : VIII, Issue : V, May - 2019

A STUDY TO ASSESS THE EFFECTIVENESS OF VISUAL GUIDED IMAGERY ON SOCIAL ANXIETY AMONG SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE AGE GROUP OF 13- 17 YEARS AT SELECTED SCHOOLS, PUDUCHERRY

Mrs. V. Revathy

Abstract :

The study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of visual guided imagery on social anxiety among school children in selected schools at Puducherry. A pre-experimental study was carried out and sixty children were selected by using purposive sampling technique. In this study, the pretest level of social anxiety was assessed using Social Anxiety Scale for adolescents (SAS-A) (ages 13-18 years) and visual guided imagery was administered to 60 children who had social anxiety for 15 days with the duration of 20 minutes every day. After six days, the post test was assessed using the same Social Anxiety Scale for adolescents (SAS-A) (ages 13-18 years).The results revealed that in the pre-test, among 172 students, 60 school children had social anxiety. In the post test, after administration of visual guided imagery, 62% of school children have no social anxiety and 38% of school children still has high social anxiety. The overall mean% for pretest was 65% and the mean % for post test was 51% and the overall effectiveness of visual guided imagery on social anxiety among school children showed the mean % of 14. The overall t-value obtained was 15.64and p =0.000*** where p<0.001 which revealed that there was a significant difference between pretest and post-test level of social anxiety after administration of visual guided imagery. In the association of pretest level p=0.034(p<.0.05), which revealed that there is significant association between the pretest levels of social anxiety with the selected demographic variable for age.