인지행동치료 집단상담의 청소년 시험불안 감소 효과에 대한 메타분석

초록

This study synthesized the test anxiety reduction effects of CBT group psychotherapy on Korean adolescents and provided evidence-based information for test anxiety reduction CBT group practice. The studies were searched with adolescent, test anxiety, group psychotherapy, and cognitive behavior therapy as keywords, and ten studies(four journal articles and six masters’ thesis) were selected for analysis. The meta-analysis was conducted for the effectiveness of the standardized average difference of test anxiety reduction between experimental and control groups. The overall mean effect size of CBT group psychotherapy for test anxiety reduction with adolescents was 0.941, evaluated as a large effect size. REBT approach showed a larger effect size than CBT approach. Among group psychotherapy methods, the cognitive restructuring as the single intervention and the group with less than ten members showed the most prominent effect size compared with counting ones. Groups with higher grades and in the areas with more populations reported the larger effect sizes. Discussion addressed an understanding of the effectiveness of CBT group psychotherapy for test anxiety and suggestions to improve group psychotherapy practice for test anxiety.

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