The effects of skills training of emotions confronting on test anxiety and academic performance of female students

The aim of this study was to investigate any possible effect of skills training of emotions confronting on decrement of stress and test anxiety and in turn on improvement of academic performance of high school students.

The sample was consisted of 30 high school female students selected based on cluster randomized sampling. All participants suffered from test anxiety and lived in city of Fereydoonshahr. They were randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group. Research instruments were Markham Index of Feeling Mental Pressure, Philips Test Anxiety and Dortaj’s Educational Performance Test.

Post-test covariance analyzes showed significant differences between the experimental and the control groups in terms of Markham Index of Feeling Mental Pressure, Philips Test Anxiety and Educational Performance Test, in post¬-test.

Skills training of emotions confronting can be embedded use in schools curriculums to prevent test anxiety and to improve academic performance