Introduction: One of the most prevalent lifetime disorders is social phobia. This disorder is the third psychiatric and most common anxiety disorder. The purpose of this review was to investigate the effect of 8 weeks aerobic exercises on social phobia of non-athlete women.
Methodology: The purpose of this review was investigation of the effect of 8 weeks aerobic exercises on social phobia of non-athlete women. The research method was semi experimental, have pretest, post test with control group. Statistical Society of study was consisted of non-athlete women which were living in Tehran. In this method, subjects were 30 non-athlete women (age=22.5±2.5) participated voluntary. The subjects were randomly divided into two groups: experimental group (n=15) and control group (n=15). 2 individuals of experimental group were dropped out from study. Before and after 8 weeks of aerobic exercises, participants completed questionnaire of social phobia inventory (SPI). The subjects ran on treadmill for 8 weeks of aerobic exercise at the speed of 55 to 75 percent of maximal heart rate.
Results: Co-variance analysis in the level of 05.0 showed that aerobic exercises affect on social phobia (p>05). All statistical analyzes were carried out on 0.05 Alpha levels and using SPSS version 20.
Discussion: The results of the analysis showed that aerobic exercises affect on social phobia. People who participate in physical activity have lower social phobia than people who are inactive.