شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The purpose of this study is to build a group-counseling program and investigate its effectiveness in reducing the sense of shyness among the ninth-grade female students in the state of Bahla in sultanate of Oman. The study sample consisted of the entire ninth-grade female students in the state of Bahla reaching a number of (102) female student. Moreover, a measurement of shyness reduction by Aldoraini (1998) was applied to those female students and the results found that out of (102) female students, only (42) female students have a low grade of shyness. Then, they have been divided into two groups (control and experimental) each of which consists of 21 female students. A counseling program was applied to the experimental group, which consists of 21 counseling sessions with two sessions a week, which were prepared by the researcher. The results indicated that there are differences with statistical significance in a significance level (a≤0.05) for the total sum of the shyness levels between both the pre application and post application were in favor of the post-application, which means the effectiveness of the group-counseling program in reducing shyness among the ninth grade students in the state of Bahla. (Author's abstract)