The purpose of present research was to examine the effectiveness of music therapy with religious approach on behavioral disorders and test anxiety in blind and partially sighted in elementary school students in Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 40 blind and partially sight More
The purpose of present research was to examine the effectiveness of music therapy with religious approach on behavioral disorders and test anxiety in blind and partially sighted in elementary school students in Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 40 blind and partially sighted students) 20 boy and 20 girls) whom were randomly selected and divided into experiment and control groups. The research was experimental design of pre-test and post-test with a control group. the pre-test was administered for two groups then experimental group received 15 Quran song sessions each for a period of 30 minutes. For collecting data Rotter Behavioral Disorders Test and Ahwaz test Anxiety Inventory were used. Multivariate analysis of variance MANOVA was applied to analyze the obtained data. The results showed that at the end of the training course, in experimental group behavioral disorders and test anxiety were decreased in comparison to the control group (p<0.001). So the research concluded that music therapy with religious approach decreased the behavioral disorders and test anxiety in blind and partially sighted elementary school students and it was suggested the using of music therapy with religious approach along with the other common treatments as a complementary therapy to decrease the mentioned symptoms in blind and partially sighted students.
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