The effectiveness of help-seeking strategies training on school quality of life and academic engagement with a two-month follow-up

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Ali Akhondzadeh arani ¹ , majid soleymani ² , akbar hedayati ³ , Shahab Rahmani ⁴

1 - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Kashan University, Kashan, Isfahan, Iran
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3 - دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی
4 - Chamran university

Received: 2024-11-16 Accepted : 2025-05-20 Published : 2025-06-12

Keywords: Help-seeking strategies, school quality of life, academic engagement,

Abstract :

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of teaching help-seeking strategies on the school quality of life and academic engagement with a two-month follow-up. The research method was a semi-experimental pre-test, post-test, follow-up type with a control group. All the students of the first secondary school in Kashan city in the academic year of 2023-2024 formed the statistical population of the research, and among them, 30 students were included in the research sample by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. They were randomly divided into two experimental and control groups. The students of the experimental group received help-seeking strategies in 12 sessions, but the students of the control group did not receive any training. Both groups completed the pre-test, post-test and follow-up questionnaires of school quality of life Anderson & Bourke's and academic engagement of Wang et al. in 3 stages. The data was analyzed using SPSS25 statistical software. The findings of the research showed that the teaching of help-seeking strategies had a positive and significant effect on the school quality of life (P=0.000) and students' academic engagement (P=0.000). Based on the obtained results, it seems necessary to train school staff in in-service courses and parents in family education sessions in order to motivate and encourage students to help-seeking in facing various academic challenges.

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