Document Type : Research Paper

Author

Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Literature and Humanities, Lorestan University, Lorestan, Iran.

Abstract

Background: Exam anxiety as a cognitive-attention construct plays an important role in performance. Because people with anxiety tests focus on activities that are unrelated to homework, occupancy, self-critique, and physical concerns, resulting in less attention to the assignment, which reduces their performance.Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of meta-cognitive therapy on of test anxiety in high school girl students in Khorramabad city. Methods: The design of the study was quasi experimental with control group in pretest, post-test and follow up. Statistical population was of all girl students in the 1391-92 in Khorramabad city ,that among the them, 40 persons were selected randomly stage. Measuring data tool in this research,were Sarason test anxiety questionnaire and leaf samples demographic information. After the intervention, post-test and after 4 months follow-up tests were performed. Results analysis with software spss- 20 and Statistical analysis of covariance. Results: The results showed that intervention based on therapeutic metacognitive reduce were the 64% test anxiety symptoms at post-test and 62% of these symptoms at follow-up (p<0.01). Conclusion: Based on these findings, can conclude that intervention of metacognitive therapy was effective in reducing symptoms of anxiety and therefore, can use this intervention to reduce symptoms of anxiety in the students.

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