On Relationship Between Junior High School Students’ Perfectionism And Test Anxiety And The Effect Of Targeted Group Counseling Interventions Experiments

Test anxiety is the emotional response generates when individuals facing with examinations, it is the concern about success or failure stimulated in a situation of examinations as well as a state of psychological reaction that responses to emotional intense, which infected by individual’s cognition,self-evaluation and personal characteristics.The phenomenon of test anxiety exists among most junior high school students, while perfectionism is kind of personality that tend to over criticize themselves, set high standards and force themselves to accomplish tasks perfectly.The test anxiety that exists among junior high school students is closely related to perfectionism, and by measurement of perfectionism can predict the level of test anxiety. Most intervention studies that about those junior high school students who have higher level test anxiety will focus on the negative affects, this study is based on analysis of the impact of personality factors of test anxiety to conduct group counseling intervention in order to adjust individual’s perfectionist tendencies which can effectively reduce the individual’s anxiety in long-term, therefore they can live and study in a better way.The study included two phases, in the first phase we surveyed 615 junior high school students of Shijiazhuang High School 41 th with Chinese version Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale revised by Zifei and Sarason Test Anxiety Scale(TAS) revised by Wangcaikang, using SPSS19.0 to analyze the relationship between test anxiety and perfectionism.In the second phase we selected high and low perfectionist students as subjects, each group had 45 subjects.They fell into the experimental groups, the placebo groups and the control groups, each group have 15 subjects for high and low perfectionists.This study applied ten times interventions to experimental groups and placebo groups. Group counseling of the experimental counseling mainly focused on perfectionism, while the placebo groups focused on growth counseling but didn’t involve in perfectionism. No interventions conducted to the control groups.After the interventions, the three groups performed post-test of perfectionism and test anxiety levels,analyzed the three groups data that before and after the interventions, and also compared the three groups.Through the discussion of the infect of group counseling intervention for junior high school students’ perfectionism and test anxiety, the study concluded that:(1)There is a significant positive correlation between junior high school students’ perfectionism and test anxiety, r=0.412, i.e. The higher perfectionism score they got, the higher anxiety they felt.(2)There were significant predictors as parents’ expectation, fearing mistakes, action hesitation degree and perfectionism scores on the test anxiety(3)Targeted group counseling intervention can effectively reduce the degree of perfectionism of junior high school students. Changes in the value of the high perfectionists in experimental groups(M=23.47) was significantly higher than in the placebo groups(M=1.87) and the control groups(M=1.47). Compared the changes in the value within the experimental groups, effect of the intervention in the high perfectionists were better than low perfectionists.(4)Targeted group counseling can effectively reduce test anxiety level among junior high school students.Changes in the value of the high perfectionists in experimental groups(M=9.27) was significantly higher than in the placebo groups(M=1.60) and the control groups(M=1.20). Compared the changes in the value within the experimental groups, effect of the intervention in the high perfectionists were better than low perfectionists.