摘要：Test anxiety causes a wide range of negative consequences including psychological distress, academic failure, and feeling of insecurity. In the same way, Perspective-Taking Training is one of the ways to have a positive effect on emotion regulation and test anxiety reduction. The present study conducted due to determine the effectiveness of ACT Matrix with compassion on emotion regulation strategy in the students with test anxiety disorders. This study was an experimental study with a pretest and posttest control group design. In the study 30 female students aged between 15 and 17 years (senior high school) situated in Ahvaz, selected by using a Multistage cluster sampling method, and the students arranged in experimental group and control group (15 persons each group) by randomization. Experimental group students received an intervention course of 16 sessions (one session per week, lasting 1 hour), and control group students without any organized intervention just watched movies and animations. Participants in both groups before intervention and after the course answered cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire. The data analyzed by using MANCOVA. The results of data analysis showed that the ACT matrix with compassion lead to the improvement of positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in experimental group students compared with the control group students. According to our research ACT Matrix with compassion lead to the improvement of positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in students with test anxiety.
