فعالية برنامج معرفي سلوكي في خفض قلق الامتحان لدى الطلاب المتفوقين عقليا ذوي صعوبات التعلم بالمرحلة الثانوية

Abstract EN

The current research aimed to examine the effectiveness of a cognitive behavioral program on reducing exam anxiety in secondary stage intellectually superior students with learning disabilities.

Sample consisted of (22) male and female secondary stage intellectually superior students with learning disabilities referred from Mansoura City, Dakahlia Governorate.

Participants aged between (15-17) years (MA 16.181 SD 5.88) and IQ ranged (120-129) on Raven's Coloured Progressive Matrices (Ali 2017), with Math difficulties and high scores in exam anxiety.

Participants were divided into two equivalent groups: Experimental and control.

Each group had (11) male and female intellectually superior students with learning disabilities.

Tools are Exam Anxiety Scale and a Cognitive Behavioral Program (developed by the researcher).

Results revealed statistically significant differences between the Scores mean ranks of the experimental and control groups in the post- test on the Exam Anxiety Scale in favor of the control group.

There were statistically significant differences between scores mean ranks of the experimental group in the pre and post tests on the Exam Anxiety Scale in favor of the pretest and there were no statistically significant differences between the scores mean ranks of the experimental group in the post and follow - up tests on the Exam Anxiety Scale.

Results also showed high effect size of the Cognitive Behavioral Program in reducing exam anxiety in the experimental group.