Present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness on academic procrastination and social and psychological well-being of students. This research in term of purpose was an applied and in term of performance was a quasi-experimental with a pre-test an More
Present research aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness on academic procrastination and social and psychological well-being of students. This research in term of purpose was an applied and in term of performance was a quasi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with control group. The research population was included high school students in Karaj city in 2017-18 academic years that from them 30 people were selected through available sampling method and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The experimental group trained by mindfulness for 8 sessions of 60 minutes. Groups completed the questionnaires of academic procrastination (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984), psychological well-being (Ryff, 1980) and social well-being (Keyes, 1998). Data was analyzed with using SPSS-19 software and with multivariate analysis of covariance method. The findings showed that mindfulness led to decrease the academic procrastination and increase the social and psychological well-being of students (P<0/01). The results indicate the importance of mindfulness on improving academic procrastination and social and psychological well-being of students. Therefore, school counselors can use the mindfulness method to decrease the academic procrastination and increase the social and psychological well-being of students
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The aim of this research was predicting social development based on social trust and optimism in faculty members. This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation was a cross-sectional correlational. The research population was faculty members o More
The aim of this research was predicting social development based on social trust and optimism in faculty members. This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation was a cross-sectional correlational. The research population was faculty members of Islamic Azad Universities of Mazandaran province in 2020 year with number of 1487 people. The sample size based on Cochran's formula was estimated 305 people who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research tools were questionnaires of researcher-made social development, Afshani and Shiri Mohammadabad social trust (2015) and Scheier and Carver optimism (1985). To analyze data were used from Pearson correlation and multiple regression with enter method tests in SPSS software. Findings from Pearson correlation test showed that social trust and optimism had a significant positive relationship with social development and findings from multiple regression with enter method test showed that social trust and optimism were able to significantly predict social development and were able to predict 32.4% of its changes in the faculty members of Islamic Azad Universities of Mazandaran province that the share of social trust was more than optimism (p < 0.01). According to the results of this study, planning to promote the social development of faculty members is essential by increasing social trust and optimism. Therefore, by holding in-service courses and necessary training can by improving social trust and optimism in faculty members improve the level of their social development.
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