The impact of social skills training program on shyness and self-esteem among secondary nursing school students

Abstract EN

Shyness may vary from mild social awkwardness to totally inhibiting social phobia, it may be chronic and dispositional, serving as a personality trait that is central in one’s self-definition this study aimed to assess implement and evaluate social skills training program about feelings of shame and self-esteem among secondary nursing students.

Subject and method:Quazi (pre/post-test) experimental research design was utilized in the study.

The study was carried out in the University and healthy secondary nursing schools, who were in final grads.

The study sample comprised 100 nursing students during assessment and selected the number of students who were suffering from shyness and had low self0esteem 34 during application of social skills training program.

Three tools were used for data collection: sociodemographic data structured interview schedules, feeling of Shyness scale and self-esteem scale.

The main results yielded by the study proved that, the majority of the studied group was aged less than 20 years old in university nursing school students 84%, a statistical significant difference was found between student’s feeling of shame and self-esteem before and after implementation of social skills training program.

The study recommended that applied social skills training program in different schools helps students to gain self- acceptance, confidence and be able to express their own feelings in a creative way.

(Published abstract)