Comparing the Effectiveness of Therapy Based on Acceptance and Commitment and Reality Therapy in a Group Way on Students' Academic Anxiety

Subject Areas : Adolescent health

¹ , Mohammad Esmaeil Ebrahimi ² , Rasool Kord Noghabi ³

1 - PhD. Student, Department of Psychology & Counselling, Borujerd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Borujerd, Iran, [e-mail]
2 - (Corresponding author): Assistant Professor, Faculty of Humanities, Ayatollah Boroujerdi University, Boroujerd, Iran, [e-mail] tell: 08733288661
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, P.O. Box 14665-889, Tehran, Iran, [e-mail]

Received: 2024-07-14 Accepted : 2024-08-19 Published : 2025-03-27

Keywords: Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, Academic Anxiety, Reality Therapy, Students,

Abstract :

Abstract Introduction: Academic anxiety is one of the important emotional factors in education, which is ambiguous and complicated for many students, so this research was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of therapy based on acceptance and commitment and reality therapy in a group way on students' academic anxiety. Research method: The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The research population included all the male secondary school students of the 2nd district of Hamedan city who were studying in the academic year of 2022-2023. From these, 3 groups of 20 people were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method and randomly divided into experimental and control groups and answered the Phillips (1978) academic anxiety questionnaire in two pre- and post-test sessions. The subjects of the experimental group were treated with the approach of treatment based on acceptance and commitment and reality therapy, during 8 sessions, 1 session of 60 minutes per week, but no training was given to the control group. The data were statistically analyzed with SPSS software and using the analysis of covariance test and a significant level of p < 0.05. Findings: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the mean of the post-test of the group treated by the acceptance and commitment method and the mean of the post-test of the group treated by the reality therapy method in a group way (i-j=-13.75, sig=0.01). Therefore, it can be said with 99% certainty: The effect of the treatment method based on acceptance and commitment is more than the effect of the group-based reality therapy method on academic anxiety in students. Conclusion: According to the results of this research, it can be said that the effect of the treatment method based on acceptance and commitment is more than the effect of the group-based reality therapy method on academic anxiety in students.

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