Effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction on emotion regulation and test anxiety in female high school students.
Shokooh Shahidi, Hossein Akbari, Fatemeh Zargar
Journal of Education and Health Promotion 2017 DOI: 10.4103/jehp.jehp_98_16 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Randomized controlled trial Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 50 |
| Population | Students |
| Intervention | Mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) |
| Duration | 8 weekly sessions; 3-month follow-up |
| Measures | Test Anxiety Scale, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire |
| Topics | Anxiety Meditation |
| Keywords | Emotion regulation Mindfulness-based stress reduction Test anxiety |
| Key findings | MBSR produced significant and sustained improvements in test anxiety and emotion regulation among students, maintained at three-month follow-up, but had no significant effect on the self-blame subscale of emotion regulation. |
Abstract
Test anxiety is one of the most disabling disorders and annual school academic performance 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 this treatment after 3 month. Sample size of fifty participants randomly divided into experimental (MBSR) and control groups. The MBSR training interventions were implemented to the experimental group, in eight weekly sessions using MBSR manual by John Kabat-Zinn (2013). Participants in both groups were evaluated using the Test Anxiety Scale and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. The study findings were analyzed using analysis of variance with repeated measures. The result shows that the MBSR program has had continuous significant effects on test anxiety (P < 000) and emotion regulation (P < 000) but was not significant only for the self-blame subscale (P = 0.126). 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 use mindfulness to reduce the anxiety of their pupils.
Comparable studies
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