| Internet addiction has become a serious social problem.Contemporary college students are the population with the highest Internet penetration rate.The number of Internet addicts among college students in China has exceeded 300,000.The Internet addiction of college students has caused a series of mental health problems,thought and behavior problems and even serious social problems.The study found that freshmen are the most prominent group of Internet addiction problems in universities.Many studies have found that college students with high social anxiety levels are more likely to be addicted to the Internet,because high social anxiety leads to low confidence,fear of others’ evaluation,like to avoid interpersonal situations,and experience more loneliness.However,in order to meet the internal needs of achievement and relationship,they tend to seek the Internet for compensation.The main objectives of MI + CBT group counseling are : firstly,stimulate the strong desire to change bad interpersonal relationship through MI treatment,and encourage freshmen to complete homework in CBT treatment;secondly,correct the unreasonable cognition of social anxiety freshmen through CBT treatment,correct unreasonable evaluation,try to response to others,and improve self-efficacy;through a series of behavioral training and homework,social anxiety can get good interpersonal experience,improve their social skills,reduce social avoidance,improve non-adaptive behavior,and finally reduce the level of Internet addiction of freshmen.This paper designed two studies.The first study was research.It selected 700 students from a university,then asked them to fill in the demographic questionnaire,such like Internet addiction scale and social anxiety scale.To explore the correlation between Internet addiction and social anxiety among freshmen,the collected questionnaire data were analyzed by using the statistical analysis software SPSS.The second study is group counseling intervention research,on the basis of research data,it designed the appropriate group counseling program,and selected several students who’s social anxiety and Internet addiction levels are relatively high.After a short interview,total 16 effective subjects join in the experimental group and control group taking the form of randomization,with 8 people in each group.Experimental group with 2 MI and 4 CBT combined group intervention,control group without any intervention.Their motivation for change was measured before and after the start of the two times of MI intervention,their Internet addiction and social anxiety was measured before and after the whole experiment,and statistical analysis was done to compare the levels of experimental and control subjects’ change motivation,Internet addiction and social anxiety.The results of first study showed that the level of social anxiety and the level of Internet addiction were positively correlated,and the social anxiety of freshmen had a positive prediction effect on Internet addiction.In the second study,before the group counseling intervention,there was no significant difference in the total scores of social anxiety and Internet addiction between the experimental and control groups,indicating that the two groups were homogeneous.But the total score of the experimental group was different of the control group after the group counseling intervention.This showed that the MI + CBT group counseling intervention was effective.The total score of change motivation in the experimental group was higher than that of the control group,the total score of social anxiety measured in the experimental group was lower than that of the control group,and the total score of Internet addiction in the experimental group was significantly lower than that of the control group.This shows that this intervention is effective,that is,MI + CBT group counseling can improve their change motivation,and then reduce the level of Internet addiction and social anxiety of freshmen in the control group.While no change occurred in the control group which without any intervention.Three conclusions are drawn :(1)social anxiety and Internet addiction were positively correlated;(2)MI + CBT group counseling can improve the motivation and reduce the level of social anxiety of freshmen;(3)reduce social anxiety can reduce the level of Internet addiction of freshmen. |
