Behavioral Cognitive Counseling for Reducing Test Anxiety Among University Students

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10.2991/icei-19.2019.17How to use a DOI?

Keywords

behavioral; cognitive; counseling; test anxiety; university students

Abstract

This study was conducted due to the absence of proper guidance and counseling service for solving academic problem at Ma'soem University. Anxiety is a problem that often occurs in the education world and is experienced by students at many levels, including university students. Out of many types of anxiety, test anxiety seems to be the most anxiety often occurs among the students. The current study was aimed at reducing test anxiety experienced by the second-semester students of Information system department of Ma'soem University in the academic year of 2018/2019. The present study was categorized as a quantitative study. This was a quasi-experimental study with nonequivalent Pretest-Posttest control group design. The samples of the study were selected through simple random sampling technique. The research instrument used an anxiety questionnaire to face the test. The data analysis technique uses the dependent t-test. The finding of the study showed that statistically, behavioral cognitive counseling is effective for reducing test anxiety among the sample of study.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Aprilia Setyowati
AU  - Syari Fitrah Rayaginansih
AU  - Irfan Fahriza
AU  - Mufied Fauziah
PY  - 2019/12
DA  - 2019/12
TI  - Behavioral Cognitive Counseling for Reducing Test Anxiety Among University Students
BT  - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Education Innovation (ICEI 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 211
EP  - 215
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/icei-19.2019.17
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