Effectiveness of Eclectic Intervention (Cognitive Restructuring and Cognitive-behavioral Coping skills) on Social Skills, Interpersonal Self-Efficacy, and social anxiety among University of Isfahan Students

People with social anxiety don’t show enough social skills and interpersonal self-efficacy in the social situations, so the aim of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of Eclectic Intervention (Cognitive Restructuring, Cognitive-behavioral coping skills) on social anxiety, social skills and interpersonal self-efficacy among Students. This study is experimental in design and is conducted through a pre-test, post-test with experimental and control group. The target sample was 32 students who were selected through several stages of cluster sampling among 287 students of university of Isfahan. At the beginning 3 questionnaires of social anxiety, social skills and interpersonal self-efficacy scales were distributed between students. Then among those those students with high social anxiety, low interpersonal, and low self-efficacy were randomly selected. Then they were randomly assigned into experimental and control group the experimental group went through 10 sessions of eclectic intervention in spring 2012. Questioners were completed in 3 stages: pre-test and post- test and follow-up after 1 month. Results of covariance analysis represented significant differences in social anxiety between experimental and control group (P<0.001, F=23.74) and significant differences in social skills between experimental and control group (P<0.004, F=10.03) and significant differences in interpersonal self-efficacy between experimental and control groups (P<0.008, F=8.254) in posttest stages. These results continued in follow-up stages. The findings of this study revealed that Eclectic Intervention (Cognitive Restructuring and Cognitive-behavioral coping skills) is effective for increasing self-assertiveness and interpersonal self-efficacy in students.