The Effectiveness of Emotion Regulatory Training on Test Anger and Processing Efficiency in High School Girl Students

Abstract

Emotional order, expresses the psychological and behavioral processes in which individuals affect their feelings and others. The Purpose of this study is determining effect of emotion regulation training on the test anxiety and processing efficiency among high school girls' students. A quasi-experimental design was selected to run this study and anxiety questionnaire developed by spilberger was used to collect data. The population of this study was the whole girls' students of Varzeghan high school. 44 samples were selected through multiple stage cluster sampling and assigned to two groups of experimental and control group. After the pretest, the participants in experimental group were given emotion regulation training based on gross model for one hour in 8 sessions. The control group did not receive any training in all these session. And there was no intervention. After the sessions, these groups were evaluated once again. MANOVA was used to analyze the data. Furthermore meaningful level is considered in all of the analyze (p<0.05) for this research. Data analyzes showed that emotion regulation was effective for test anxiety and processing efficiency. Emotion regulation skills can be offered to students for enabling them to manage their anxiety at school. Introduction Over the last decades, more emphasis is placed on the role of emotional regulation in Psychopathology [1]. Excitement is an internal data that affects our thoughts and behavior. Excitement is universal and appearing in one form throughout the people over the world. The faces of people in different cultures are similar in sadness, happiness, hatred and wonder. We may not understand each other's language, but we understand the excitement of each other from the forms of the face. This point reflects the importance of excitement in our daily life. Emotions play a vital role because they keep us alive. Positive excitements like joy, increase energy levels, increase selfesteem, power of decision-making, creativity, optimism and hope, endeavor and perseverance, resilience and tolerance to disadvantages and hardships and hard work. And then the physical and psychological health of the person becomes guaranteed. Instead, negative excitements such as sadness have the negative result, and reduce energy and confidence, the power of thought and decision, stagnation and frustration, disappointment and impatience, which increases physical and mental problems. It should be noted that the experience of both positive and negative modes of excitement is an inseparable part of human life and it is necessary. But the dominant and persistent experience of negative emotions leads to mental disorders, such as depression and anxiety. One of the basic problems is that many people cannot control their excitement effectively. Psychological pathologists believe that failure in applying and refining emotional regulation skills predicts future mental health problems and can predispose children and adolescents to subsequent mental disorders; In addition, it is an important factor in the appearance of depression and anxiety [2]. Excitements are functional and adaptive phenomena that help the organism and apply behavior to the goals of the organism. And can disrupt cognitive and behavioral processes and direct attention International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences Submitted: 2018-06-08 ISSN: 2300-2697, Vol. 88, pp 15-22 Revised: 2019-10-12 doi:10.18052/www.scipress.com/ILSHS.88.15 Accepted: 2019-12-1