An Experimental Study On Social Anxiety Of College Freshmen With Group Counseling Of Dance Movement Therapy

Dance Movement Therapy is a kind of psychological therapy,which integrates many disciplines such as dance,body,spirit and psychology,applying body,movement and dance to psychological work.In recent years,the related research of Dance Movement Therapy has made great progress.Social anxiety refers to the tension and discomfort experienced by individuals in public or social situations when they are worried about being noticed or evaluated by others,afraid that they will make a mistake or behave badly,and self-assessed as negative.College freshmen are in the transition stage from adolescence to adulthood,their own mind is relatively sensitive,coupled with the rapid change of living environment and learning environment after entering college,the new interpersonal relationship has not been fully established,it is easy to suffer from social anxiety.The purpose of this study was to investigate the current situation of social anxiety of college freshmen,and to explore to explore the effectiveness of the group counseling of Dance Movement Therapy in alleviating social anxiety of freshmenThis study mainly includes two parts.The first part is to conduct a mental health survey of 3029 freshmen in a university in Jiangxi Province through College Students Mental Health Screening Scale.Based on the scores in the dimension of "Social Phobia",the data analysis software SPSS21.0 is used to analyze the current situation and characteristics of social anxiety of college freshmen.The results are:about 24.28% of freshmen have social anxiety,which is relatively high;the gender,place of origin and major of college freshmen have no significant influence on their social anxiety;whether they are the only child or not has a significant influence on their social anxiety,and the level of social anxiety of non-only children is higher than that of only children.Based on the first part,the second part is to design the group guidance experiment of Dance Movement Therapy,and recruit 24 freshmen with high scores in the dimension of "Social Phobia" for the experiment.The experimental group and the control group are 12 each,and College Students Mental Health Screening Scale and Social Avoidance and Distress Scale are used for pre and post test.The experimental group receive the group counseling of Dance Movement Therapy twice a week for 5 weeks,while the control group do not receive any psychological intervention during the experiment.After the experiment,SPSS21.0software is used to analyze the pre-and post-test data of the experimental group and the control group,and supplemented by action observation,feedback from the experimental group members and other qualitative materials as supplementary explanations.The results are the group counseling of Dance Movement Therapy can significantly relieve freshmen’s social anxiety from two dimensions of social distress and social avoidance;the group counseling of Dance Movement Therapy can relieve freshmen’s social anxiety from the physical,cognitive and emotional levels.