Solution-Focused Brief group Therapy on self-esteem and test anxiety First secondary school female students in Koshkoueeh City

It has been observed that short–term solution–focused approach training is effective in addressing behavioral, emotional and educational problems, and promoting social and communication skills in different groups of clients, including teenagers and students. This study aimed to examine the group training of solution–focused approach on examination anxiety and self–esteem of students and this study is seeking to answer this question: whether group training of solution–focused approach is effective in examination anxiety and self–esteem. 

The research design was a quasi–experimental design with control group and was examined in a way such as pre–test, intervention and post–test. The statistical population of this study consisted of all female students of first secondary school of Koshkuiyeh in 2016–2017 academic year with 352 students. Among the first secondary schools of Koshkuiyeh, a school was randomly selected and after initial screening, 50 female students who had high examination anxiety and low self–esteem were randomly assigned to two experimental (n=25) and control groups (n=25). The educational intervention program was conducted in 8 sessions of 90 minutes based on the educational sessions of solution–focused approach. In order to measure the desired variables such as examination anxiety and self–esteem used Speilberger and Cooper Smith Self Esteem Inventory respectively. In this research, we used the descriptive statistics method to answer the research hypotheses including: frequency, percentage and cumulative frequency, mean and standard deviation and in order to determine real data, we used Kolmogorov–Smirnov Test and for answering the research question was used Analyze of Covariance test with SPSS–22. 

The results showed that there was a significant difference between the examination anxiety scores in post–test after eliminating the effect of pre–test (p≤0.001). The results also showed that there was a significant difference between the scores of self–esteem in post–test after eliminating the effect of pre–test (p≤0.001). 

According to the results of this study, it can be stated that a solution–focused brief therapy can reduce the examination anxiety in high school girls.