The effectiveness of positive psychology-based child therapy education on self-esteem And student exam anxiety

Mina Taherifard¹ Sahar Shahbazi²

1) PhD student of Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran
2) Student of Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil.

IOI Code : XDDD-FAGEK
Publication : 2th National Conference on Psychopathology(asruma.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of positive psychotherapy-based child therapy education on students self-esteem and test anxiety. The statistical population included all first and second grade high school female students in Namin city in the academic year 1399. Using available sampling method, students who had a high score of 12 on the test anxiety questionnaire and had severe test anxiety were selected and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). The parents of the control group students were trained for 7 sessions of 60 minutes. Both Rosenberg self-esteem questionnaires and Sarason test anxiety questionnaire were used to collect data. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that there was a significant difference between the control group and the experimental group in the variables of students self-esteem and test anxiety. Therefore, it can be concluded that in order to increase students self-esteem and reduce test anxiety, a child therapy model based on positive psychology can be used

Keywords : child therapy self esteem exam anxiety students