Background: Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the emergence of many
disorders, especially anxiety disorders, so that statistics show that 18.6% of
adolescents suffer from a type of anxiety and disorders related to it. There are
different types of anxiety, and test anxiety is one of them, and it generally appears
in the middle childhood to adolescence period, and in this period, social and
academic performance is the main issue of fear or anxiety in children and
adolescents.
Aim : Comparative study of the effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment
Therapy (ACT) and cognitive bias modification towards signs of threat on
perfectionism, emotion regulation and resilience of high school girls with test
anxiety.
Methodology: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the
effectiveness of acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive bias
modification towards signs of threat on perfectionism, resilience and emotion
regulation of high school girls with test anxiety. The current research design was
semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The
statistical population of the research was made up of female students with test
anxiety in Bushehr city, and the sampling method in the first stage of selection
was voluntary; In this way, 45 students were selected from among the students
who scored at least 40 in the Ahvaz test anxiety questionnaire and were replaced
in the experimental group: acceptance and commitment therapy (15), the cognitive
bias modification experimental group (15) and the control group (15) and at first
they completed the questionnaires related to the research variables. Then, the
experimental group of acceptance and commitment therapy 8 sessions of 90
minutes during one month and 2 sessions per week were trained in therapy on the
protocol of acceptance and commitment therapy , and the experimental group of
cognitive bias modification also performed the task of cognitive bias modification
with probe dot for 8