Comparison of Effectiveness of Transactional Analysis, Exposure and Response Prevention and Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy on Students' Academic Anxiety
International Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences,
Vol. 10 No. 2 (2023),
17 June 2023,
Page 1-8
https://doi.org/10.22037/ijabs.v10i2.30449
Introduction: The objective of this study was to investigate and compare the effects of three training courses including transactional analysis (TA), exposure and response prevention (ERP) and intensive short-term dynamic psychotherapy (ISTDP) on reducing academic anxiety among students in Tehran.Materials and Methods: This quasi-experimental study was a multi-lateral pretest-posttest with control group. Phillips Anxiety Test (1978) was used to measure the dependent variable, academic anxiety. In this research, 45 students who obtained higher score in academic anxiety test were subjected to three variables (educational methods) in three groups of 15 (experimental group) and 15 people were randomly selected for control group.Results: The results showed significant differences between the pretest and posttest scores of all groups except the control group on the level of anxiety (P <0.05). Also, the difference between the three experimental groups in all four components of academic anxiety (test anxiety, fear of assertiveness, lack of self-confidence and physiological reactions) was significant at P <0.05 level.Discussion: TA, ERP and ISTDP training courses help to reduce students' academic anxiety.