The Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Test Anxiety in Elementary School Children

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy on test anxiety among primary school girls in Andimeshk city. The method of this research is semi-experimental. The pretest-posttest design with the control group used. The study population were all school children in the third grade to the sixth Animesh city in the academic year 97-96 were enrolled in primary schools in the city. Sampling in this research was a simple multi-stage random sampling. This means that the elementary schools three schools selected randomly from among students score above the cut score on the scale of test anxiety in children (score above 70) thirty randomly selected in the final stage of randomly into two groups There were fifteen people. Before the intervention, both groups filled out the test anxiety questionnaire, and immediately after the intervention, the questionnaire was again filled up by subjects in both groups. Descriptive statistical methods including mean and standard deviation and inferential statistics including one-variable and multivariate covariance analysis were used to analyze the data. The results of the data analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups after the intervention. Therefore, acceptance and commitment therapy based therapy reduced the test anxiety of the primary school children.