The Effectiveness of Self-Efficacy on Test Anxiety and Academic Burnout of Students

Background and Since self-efficacy has a considerable impact on many aspects of people's lives, the purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of self-efficacy on test anxiety and academic burnout of students.
The research method was semi-experimental with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population of study included all the primary school students in Rasht city in the second half 2015 year, that among them, 30 students were selected by using convenient method and assigned into experimental group (15 individuals) and control groups (15 individuals) randomly. The experimental groups had received 8 sessions of self-efficacy program. Test anxiety questionnaire and academic burnout questionnaire were used for data gathering. Data were analyzed by multivariable covariance test.
Results showed that the experimental group than the control group students in posttest had a significantly less test anxiety and academic burnout (P Overall, the results obtained in this study confirmed the effect of self-efficacy in reducing anxiety and student's academic burnout.