November 19, 2024
Soran Rajabi

Soran Rajabi

Academic Rank: Associate professor
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Degree: Ph.D in Psychology
Phone: 09188708323
Faculty: Faculty of Humanities

Research

Title
The Effectiveness of EMDR on Mental Wandering, Flash Forwards and Mental Time Travel in Test Anxiety in Adolescents.
Type Thesis
Keywords
حساسيتزدايي و بازپردازش از طريق چشم ، اضطراب امتحان، سرگرداني ذهني، گذر به آينده، سفر ذهني در زمان
Researchers azadeh paston (Student) , Soran Rajabi (Primary advisor) , Yousef Dehghani (Advisor)

Abstract

Anxiety is a central phenomenon around which many psychiatric theories have been formed. Most researchers state that low worry and anxiety is beneficial for students. During the growth of children and teenagers, they experience different types of anxiety,especially school anxiety, one of these types of anxiety is Test anxiety. Mental wandering has been identified as one of the common metacognitive structures in theoccurrence of mental disorders, especially anxiety disorders. One third of life is affectedby a major phenomenon, namely mental wandering, which has a close relationship withnegative mood. A healthy and normal person who has curiosity can be aware of his pastas well as his future. Mental time travel is involved in depression and anxiety disorders,and problems related to mental time travel are fundamental in psychopathology. Flashforward, i.e. negative intrusive visual images about events that they feared wouldhappen to them in the future. The use of anxiety reduction techniques in the field ofpsychology has been used by psychologists for years. The statistical population in thisstudy was all girl adolescents in high school with test anxiety. 30 students were selected through purposeful sampling and randomly assigned to two groups of 15 experimentaland control groups. The research instrument was a clinical interview based on DSM-5,Spielberger Questionnaire (1980), Mind Wandering Questionnaire by Mrazak et al.(2013), Time Travel Scale (Jalalian et al., 2018), Flash Forwards Questionnaire developed by the researcher. After implemention of pre-test questionnaires, 5sessionsof EMDR were conducted for the experimental group. After that, subjects in bothgroups completed post-test questionnaires. The findings of multivariate covariance analysis showed that EMDR therapy had a significant effect on the Reducing test anxiety with effect size of 0.52, mental travel in time with effect size of 0.64, flashforwards with an effect size of 0.71, and mind wandering with an