摘要：The present study has evaluated the effectiveness of group acceptance and commitment therapy onsocial anxiety and the role of cognitive abilities as a predictor factor. The sample group was 44 students with socialphobia in two experimental and control groups of Tehran’s high school students. The sampling method wasavailable and the research tools were the questionnaires of cognitive abilities and social phobia. After 6 sessions of90-minute therapies and implementing the statistical method of repeated measurements analysis; the results showedthat group acceptance and commitment therapy has a significant impact on reducing social anxiety and those whohad greater cognitive abilities had a better response to the intervention. Therefore, it can be concluded that groupacceptance and commitment therapy can be used to treat social anxiety, and cognitive abilities of people can beassessed before treatment as a predictor factor of response to treatment
关键词：social anxiety disorder; acceptance and commitment therapy; cognitive abilities
