The Effect of Cognitive Restructuring and Systematic Desensitization Methods On the Reduction of Mathematics Anxiety in Third Grade Secondary School Girl Students in Ahvaz

پژوهش های روان شناسی بالینی و مشاوره

Article 10, Volume 07, Issue 2, October 2006

Document Type: پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/ijap.v7i2.6796

Authors

Ayatollah Karimibaghmalek^* ; Ghlamhosein Ebadi

Abstract

The aim of this research was to study the effect of congnitive restructuring and systematic desensitization as important methods in reduction of mathematics anxiety. The subjects were 64 students of third Grade secondary school of the city of Ahvaz that selected by Multi – Stage random Sampling method and divided in three group (two group experimental and one group control). In first group the cognition restructuring mehtod administred at 7 Weeks and the mehtod of systematic desensitization also was instructed simultaneously, and in third goup (control group) diden’t asminister any traning and at the end, post test of mathematics anxiety was exacuted on three groups. After two mounts to study the effect of therapeutic methods on mathematics anxiety, the other test was administered. The results and comarsion cognitive restructuring and systematic desensitization and control group by T-Test (independent) was approved number 1,2,3 of hupothesis and showed that this two methods were effecitve in the period of therapy and after the therapy (two Mounts later). Any Significance Differences In Efficacy was not observer between the method of cognitive restucturingand systematic desensitinization.

Key Words: Mathematics Anxiety, Cognitive Restructuring, Systematic, Desensitization, Anxiety, Treatment for Reduction of Mathematics Anxiety