Year: 2018
Type: dissertation
Study design: Clinical Trial
Abstract: The high level of academic and school test is one source of anxiety in teenagers \nand children in schools today. This study aims to determine the effect of gratitude \ntraining to decrease the level of test anxiety in elementary school students. \nGratitude training is an activity that focuses the students to give thanks to God \nand also to humans for the favors doing by heart, verbal and deeds. Gratitude \ntraining is able to build positive emotions and constrict negative emotions that \nimpact on decreasing the test anxiety level of students. The subjects of the study \nwere 40 elementary school students in grade VI who will face the school test in \n2018 and have anxiety scale scores in high category. This study used quasi \nexperiment with nonrandomized pretest-posttest control group design. Statistical \nanalysis using independent-sample t-test show the result of p-value of 0,029 (p \n<0,05). So it can be concluded the results of this study indicate a significant \ninfluence of gratitude training towards decreasing test anxiety level of elementary \nschool students.
Author: Novi Anisa Hidayati
Language: Indonesian
Subfield: Social Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2914636727