Investigation into the Effect of Consulting Group with a Cognitive and Behavioural Approach the on Reduction of Test Anxiety of Female Students in Secondary School in Tehran City

Abstract

The aim of this research is to investigate the effect of group consultation with a cognitive – behavioural approach on the reduction of students’ examination anxiety. The studied population included all the sophomore students who study in public secondary schools of Tehran. The sample included 60 students that were determined scientifically by using multi-stage random sampling. This experimental research is a posttest – pretest design with a control group 25 articles with two variables (worry and excitement) in three levels of low, medium and high were used to investigate the research questions by Sarason’ s examination anxiety. Beck,s cognitive – behavioural approach was taught to the experimental group in 12 sessions, every session of 120 minutes. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the findings (independent groups and dependent groups’ T test) and the results of the research indicate: 1. With regard to the examination anxiety, most students had been at a medium level and higher than it and the amount of examination anxiety in case of excitement is more than the worry variable. 2. The amount of examination anxiety in the students who received group consultation with a cognitive – behavioural approach is meaningfully less than in those who did not receive it.