The Effectiveness of Attribution Retraining Intervention on Test Anxiety Level and Obsessional Perfectionism of Female High - school Student with Test anxiety

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a attribution retraining programm on the test anxiety level and obsessional perfectionism of the high -school girl students with test anxiety.

In a randomized controled trial design among statistical population consisting all female high-school students of the Semnan high-schools,during 2018 academic year, a total sample of 50 subjects selected  by a cluster-sampling method, and divided randomly to  experimental and control groups. Two standard questionnaires of the research included:1- Friedman Test Anxiety and 2- Hill's Perfectionism Scale.

Our findings revealed significantly reduced mean scores of the obsessional perfectionism and test anxiety of the high-school girls in the experimental group than control. Six subcomponents of perfectionism including: organizing, striving for excelence, need for approval, concern over mistakes,      parental pressure and rumination, as well as, cognitive error  from test xiety were significant. No other  significant component was evident.

It could be mention that the  the attribution retraining intervention  could reduce the test anxiety level, as well as, obsessional perfectionism in the female high-school students and  can help to student's mental health promotion.