Effectiveness of Mindfulness on Self esteem and Procrastination in Girl Students

Subject Areas : Research in Curriculum Planning

Fahimeh  Aghasi ¹ (Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.)
Hadi  Farhadi ² (Assistant Professor of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.)
Asghar  Aghaei ³ (Department of educational science and psychology, Isfahan (khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad university, Isfahan, Iran.)

Received: 2019-04-24 Accepted : 2019-11-11 Published : 2019-12-22

Keywords: self esteem, procrastination, girl students, mindfulness,

Abstract :

The aim of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness training on academic procrastination and self esteem of ninth graders high school females in Isfahan in 95-96 academic year. Method: The research was of quasi- experimental type with pretest, post -Test and control group. Population were consisted of all female ninth graders in Isfahan city. By using stratified cluster sampling method two district were randomly selected among six educational districts then two school from each district and two classrooms from each school were randomly selected. Data were collected by Solmomn and Rothblum Academic Procrastination (1984) and Cooper Smith Self esteem (1967) questionnaires. Questionnaires were given to all students.then 40 participants who had the highest scores on procrastination and the lowest scores on self esteem were selected and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control group. 8 sessions of mindfulness training,were held with experimental group.Results showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of experimental and control groups in any of the variables in post- test and follow up stage, indicating that mindfulness training program was effective to enhance self esteem and decrease academic procrastination in experimental group. Conclusion: it seems that mindfulness training and practices can influence people by increasing awareness of the present moment by techniques such as paying attention to breathing and body, awareness of here and now, information précising.

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