The Effectiveness of Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions on Test anxiety, General Health and Corona Anxiety among University Entrance Exam Candidates

The aim of this research was to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral interventions on Test anxiety, general health and corona anxiety among of university entrance examination candidates in Tehran. The study design was a semi-experimental design, pre-test-post-test with a control group. Participants were 30 individual which randomly assigned into experimental group (15 participant) and control group (15 participant). The experimental groupparticipated in cognitive-behavioral therapy for 8 sessions of 90 minutes. The research tools included Test anxiety Questionnaires (Friedman and Jacob, 1975), General health Questionnaire (Goldberg and Hiller, 1979) and corona anxiety (Alipour and Vadigran, 2020). The data was analyzed using repeated covariance analysis using SPSS software. The findings showed that the average scores of exam anxiety, general health and corona anxiety were different in the two experimental and control groups and indicated the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral intervention training in reducing exam anxiety and corona anxiety and increasing the general health of entrance exam candidates (0.05) >P