The Effectiveness of Self-Compassion Training on Sense of Security and Academic Procrastination in Female High School Students
Keywords:
Self-Compassion Training, Sense of Security, Academic Procrastination, Female Students, High SchoolAbstract
Objective: Today, many students face numerous academic and non-academic challenges, which among them can be noted to decrease in sense of security and increase in academic procrastination. Therefore, the aim of this research was determine the effectiveness of self-compassion training on sense of security and academic procrastination in female high school students.
Methods and Materials: The present study was a semi-experimental from type of pre-test and post-test along with a control group. The present research population was female high school students in District 6 of Tehran's Education in the academic years of 2023-4, which from whom 60 people were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly with the help of lottery assigned to two groups of 30 people, including experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of 90 minute by self-compassion training, while the control group during this period did not receive any training. The research instruments were included the Edmondson Sense of Security Scale (1999) and the Solomon and Rothblum Academic Procrastination Scale (1984), and the data obtained from their implementation were analyzed with using the multivariate analysis of covariance method in SPSS-23 software.
Findings: Based on the findings of this study, there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in terms of both variables of the sense of security and academic procrastination in female high school students. In the other words, self-compassion training significantly increased the sense of security and significantly decreased the academic procrastination in female high school students (P<0.001).
Conclusion: Based on the aforementioned findings, self-compassion training had an effective role in improving the sense of security and academic procrastination in female high school students. Therefore, counselors and psychologists can use the self-compassion training method along with other training methods to increase the sense of security and reduce academic procrastination in female high school students.
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