The Effectiveness of Adolescent Mindfulness Therapy on Academic Resilience and Academic Optimism of Anxious Students of the First Year of High School

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Isfahan (khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of adolescent mindfulness therapy on academic resilience and academic Optimism of anxious students of the first year of high school. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest and control group design and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the present study included anxious students of the first year of high school in Isfahan city in the academic year of 2021-2022. 34 anxious student were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (18 students in the experimental group and 16 students in the control group). The students in the experimental group received adolescent-centered mindfulness therapy during ten weeks in ten 90-minute sessions. The applied questionnaire included Anxiety Questionnaire (Beck et al, 1988), Academic Resilience Questionnaire (Samuels, 2004) and Academic Optimism Questionnaire (Tschannen-Moran et al, 2013). The data from the study were analyzed through mixed analysis of Variance and post hoc Bonferroni test via SPSS23 software. The results showed that adolescent mindfulness therapy has significant effect on the academic resilience (F=36.67; Eta=0.53; P<0001) and academic Optimism (F=46.78; Eta=0.59; P<0001) of anxious students.

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Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 22 September 2024
  • Receive Date: 17 May 2023
  • Revise Date: 16 July 2023
  • Accept Date: 13 August 2023
  • First Publish Date: 15 August 2024
  • Publish Date: 22 September 2024