Study to asess cognitive behavioral therapy thesis synopsis

1. RESEARCH
PRESENTATION
PRESENTED BY:
Ms. Mamta Singh
Assistant Professor

2. PROBLEM STATEMENT
“A study to assess the effectiveness of cognitive behavior
therapy on knowledge regarding student’s test anxiety
among High school students in selected areas of Morbi’’.

3. BACKGROUND OF STUDY
Exams and tests are considered as an integral part of people's
life. The results of tests affect all aspects of life significantly .
One of the common educational problems is test anxiety that
students face, which affects their learning and academic
achievement.
Test anxiety is defined as a type of self-obsession that
manifests itself through self-concept and doubt, and generally
causes negative cognitive assessment, lack of concentration,
adverse physiological reactions, and decline in students'
academic performance.

4. Soysa & Weiss (2014) have defined test anxiety as a
form of self-obsession that is associated with self-
deprecation, atheism, doubt about your abilities, and
lack of self-confidence, which leads to academic
failure and endangers the mental and physical health
of the individual.

5. NEED FOR THE STUDY
• Cognitive behavioral therapy is considered as one of the treatment
methods to reduce students' test anxiety. This treatment is designed to
address spontaneous negative thoughts and assumptions and beliefs in
emotional disorders.
• According to this method, individuals are taught how to review and
evaluate their negative thoughts. The therapist encourages clients to
evaluate their negative thoughts and hypotheses in a real and objective
way through behavioural assignments.

6. According to cognitive behavioral therapy, maladaptive
thoughts are the cause of maladaptive behavior and people
must learn new ways of thinking. Therapists are able to help
people rebuild their thought patterns to better cope with stress
Exam anxiety is considered as a field that has been widely
studied since the early twentieth century and has always
attracted much attention of researchers as one of the serious
issues in the field of education of children, adolescents and
even adults .
On the other hand, test anxiety and its dimensions as one of
the broadest fields of research has attracted much attention of
many researchers in recent years.

7. OBJECTIVES
1. To assess the level of anxiety among high school students in selected
area
2. to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in
reducing anxiety level among high school students
3. To determine the impact of cognitive behavioral therapy on students'
knowledge about anxiety.
4. To identify factors contributing to anxiety levels among high school
students.
5. To assess the level of satisfaction among high school students who
received cognitive behavioral therapy.

8. 6. To provide recommendations for schools to help students
manage their anxiety levels.
7. To assess the frequency and percentage distribution of
demographic characteristics.
8. To evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive behavioral therapy in
post test .
9. To find out the association between student’s anxiety with
demographic variables of pre-experimental and control group
among high school students.
10. To find out the association between student’s anxiety of post –
experimental group and control group among high school
students .

9. HYPOTHESIS:
• H1 –There will be significant difference between pretest and posttest knowledge
score regarding cognitive behavior therapy among high school students in
experimental group and control group
• H2 –There will be association between posttest knowledge score regarding cognitive
behavior therapy among high school students in experimental group and control
group

10. Review of literature
• Review of literature for the present study was collected, organized and
presented under are as follow:
• Section A: literature related to student anxiety of high school students .
• Section B: literature related to cognitive behaviour therapy .

11. RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
• Research approach:-Quantitative Approach
• Research Design:-Quasi experimental research design
• Setting:-Selected Rural areas of Morbi district
• Population: Male and female high school students
• Target population:- High school students in selected areas of Morbi .
• Accessible population:-All high school students in selected area of Morbi district.
• Sample:-Sample is composed of 200 high students of Morbi district
• Tools:-Test – anxiety Questionnaire for the assessment of the
knowledge .
• Sampling techniques:- Non probability convenient sampling Techniques.
• Sample size:- 200 sample

12. SAMPLING CRITERIA:-
Inclusion criteria:-
1.High school students of Male and Female.
2. Those who were willing to participate in the study
3. Those who were able to talk coherently
4. Those who were able to hear
5. Those who are understand English, Gujarati language.
Exclusion criteria:-
1. High school students who were deaf and dumb
2. Those who were cognitively impaired
3. Those who are absent during data collection

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