Review and Prospect of Music Therapy for Intervention of Test Anxiety

Abstract

Test anxiety is a negative emotion produced by individuals in the test environment. Serious test anxiety will cause psychological and physical adverse reactions, which will not only affect the test results, but also affect the healthy development of students' body and mind. As a new subject, music therapy has achieved great results in the treatment of mental and physical diseases, as well as the regulation of self-emotion and the promotion of interpersonal communication. This paper, by searching related articles of music therapy intervention for test anxiety, collates, analyzes and summarizes the results of such studies, explores the effectiveness of music therapy intervention for test anxiety. At the same time, it proposes future research trends and directions in this research field :(1) Optimize the experimental design;(2) Improve treatment techniques to enhance intervention effectiveness; (3) Adopt multi-dimensional index to measure; (4) Expanding intervention research on different groups.