Investigated the effecacy of self‐administered cognitive therapy (RET) in the treatment of high and chornic social anxiety. Forty‐five socially anxious volunteer students, who scored in the upper 15% of 570 students prescreened with the Social Avodance and Distress Scale, were mathced on SAD scores and randomly assigned to self‐administered cognitive therapy (RET), a self‐administered attention placebo condition. (Logo‐therapy), or a no‐treatment control condition. Pretest and pssttest measures included the Social Avoidance and Distress Scale (SAD), Fear of Negative Evaulation Scale (ENF), State‐Trit Anxiety Inventory, and Rotter's Internal‐External Locus of Control Scale. Results indicated that self‐administered cognitive therapy significantly decresed social anxiety and fear of negative evaluation and also suggested a generalization of effects as trait anxiety significantly decreased. Comparisons of mean change scores with therapist adminsitered studies lend support to the conclusion that self‐administered cognitivae restructuring is an suggest that paritcipants may have attanied therapeutic beneifts as a consistent trend toward decreased anxiety across variables.
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