. Shokooh Shahidi; . Hossein Akbari; . Fatemeh Zargar
Volume 7, Issue 5 , September and October 2017, , Pages 1-6
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Test anxiety is one of the most disabling disorders and annual school academicperformance will affect millions of students. Hence, it needs attention and treatment. Therefore,this ...
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BACKGROUND: Test anxiety is one of the most disabling disorders and annual school academicperformance will affect millions of students. Hence, it needs attention and treatment. Therefore,this research aimed to examine the effectiveness of a mindfulness‑based stress reduction (MBSR)therapy on emotion regulation and test anxiety of students and test the remaining effect of thistreatment after 3 month.METHODS: Sample size of fifty participants randomly divided into experimental (MBSR) and controlgroups. The MBSR training interventions were implemented to the experimental group, in eightweekly sessions using MBSR manual by John Kabat‑Zinn (2013). Participants in both groups wereevaluated using the Test Anxiety Scale and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. Thestudy findings were analyzed using analysis of variance with repeated measures.RESULTS: The result shows that the MBSR program has had continuous significant effects on testanxiety (P < 000) and emotion regulation (P < 000) but was not significant only for the self‑blamesubscale (P = 0.126).CONCLUSIONS: The study results indicated that the effects of MBSR lasted through the follow‑up,for both of these variables. Using the results of this study may be proposed school counselors usemindfulness to reduce the anxiety of their pupils.
