자기자비 글쓰기가 시험불안 대학생의 시험불안과 주의력에 미치는 영향

Abstract

This study was conducted to implement self-compassion writing for college studentsexperiencing test anxiety and to determine how such an intervention affects their test anxietyand attention. To this end, a test anxiety survey was conducted for students at G University inGyeongsangnam-do, and 75 students who had test anxiety were selected and randomly assignedto three groups (self-compassion writing group, distraction writing group, and nontreatmentgroup). As a result of the study, first, the scores on the test anxiety scale significantly declinedin the self-compassion writing group compared to those of the distraction writing group and thenontreatment group. Second, the heart rate of the self-compassion writing group decreasedeffectively compared to those of the distraction writing group and nontreatment group.Third, interms of attention, there was no difference in the results of the grid task across each group, butthe scores of the self-compassion writing group were shown to be significantly higher thanthose of the other two groups in the Digit Span task. Based on the research outcome, theimplication of an intervention measure for college students facing test anxiety was discussed.