The Impact of Meurofeedback-Based Therapy on Reducing Test Anxiety and Shyness of Female Students at Competitive Dxamination Level

The main objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of neurofeedback-based treatment in reducing test anxiety and shyness of female students at competitive examination level in Ahvaz. The sample consisted of 40 students at competitive examination level that were selected by available sampling method from students referred to Ahvaz Aramesh counseling clinic, which were randomly divided into two experimental (n=20) and control (n=20) groups. The tools used were Friedman Test Anxiety Questionnaire (1997) and Stanford Shyness Questionnaire (1997). The experimental group received fifteen 30-minute sessions (three sessions per week) of neurofeedback treatment program. The study design was a semi-experimental and pretest-posttest one with control group. The results obtained using analysis of variance (ANCOVA) at significance level of α=0.05 showed that the neurofeedback-based therapy has an impact on reducing test anxiety and shyness of female students at competitive examination level in Ahvaz.