Determining the Effectiveness of Teaching the Strategies for Coping Stress with and Islamic Mantra on the Level of Exam Anxiety among the Students in High School for Girls in Tonekabon

The present paper tries to compare the effectiveness of teaching the strategies for coping with stress and Islamic mantra on the level of exam anxiety among the students in the high schools for girls in Tonekabon. Sixty female students were selected through simple cluster sampling and randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group. All the three groups completed a questionnaire on exam stress as the pretest. The strategies for coping with stress and Islamic mantra were taught to the experimental groups within eight sixty-minute sessions and then all the three groups completed the questionnaire on exam stress. The data analysis show that there is a significant difference between the experimental groups and the control group and there is a difference between the effectiveness of teaching the strategies for coping with stress and Islamic mantra - in comparison with control group- on decreasing the level of exam anxiety among the students of the high schools for girls in Tonekabon. This difference which is in favour of the groups that were thought the strategies for coping with Islamic mantra and stress. Has its effect on decreasing the exam anxiety of the students of the high schools for girls in Tonekabon.