The effects of coping with stress program on the anxiety levels of 5th grade students

In this research the effects of Coping With Stress Program on the anxiety levels of 5th grade students were investigated.Research was conducted in Izmir Bayraklı Talatpaşa Elementary School at 2010-2011 education period with 24 students who were distributed to the experimental group as 12 students and control group as 12 students regarding their similarities.Data were collected by State-Trait Anxiety Inventory For Children and a personal information form which was developed by the researcher. In order to see whether there was a statistically significant difference between the pretest anxiety levels of groups before the application of the programme or not, t-test was conducted. After the similarity obtained, Coping With Stress Program was conducted to the experimental group in 6 session inwhich each session was 40 minutes and there was no intervention to the control group for stres or anxiety reduction.After the program was conducted to the experimental group and after the post-test and following test results obtained, the effects of Coping With Stress Program on the anxiety levels of 5th grade students were analyzed by oneway Anova. Data were analysed by using SPSS 17.0 statistic programme.Results showed that Coping With Stress Program reduced the anxiety levels of 5th grade students and this effect lasted three months. Besides, a statistically significant decrease was seen on the trait anxiety means of the experimental group acccording to their post-test results and there was no statistically significant difference between the post test and the following test means of the experimental group. Moreover, there was no statistically significant difference between the pretest and the post test means of the control group. As a consequence, all of the hypothesis argumented in this research were supported by the results.