Effectiveness of Cognitive and Group Behaviour Therapies in Managing Examination Anxiety Among Academically-at-risk Secondary School Students in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria
Year: 2011
Type: article
Study designs: Randomized Controlled Trial, Clinical Trial
Abstract: This study investigated the effectiveness of Cognitive and Group BehaviourTherapies in managing examination anxiety among academically-at-risksecondary school students in Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria. The study adopted anexperimental research design. 180 participants from six secondary schools inthree local government areas in Ibadan. The participants were randomly assignedto treatment and control groups. The two treatment groups were exposed to tenweeks training in Cognitive and Group Behaviour Therapies, while participantsin the control group received no training. Two validated instruments: ExaminationAnxiety Scale and Student Academic Self-Efficacy Scale were used. Data wereanalyzed using Analysis of Covariance and t-test. The findings revealed that therewas a significant main effect of treatment on the ability of academically-at-riskstudents to manage examination anxiety. Also, self-efficacy was found to have asignificant effect on the examination anxiety of academically-at-risk-studentparticipants. It was concluded that cognitive behaviour and Group therapies wereeffective in managing examination anxiety among academically-at-risk-students.Therefore, it was recommended among others that the school counselingpsychologists can adopt the two interventions therapies to manage examinationanxiety among academically-at-risk-students.
Author: Ajibola O. Falaye
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2182135062