The effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress management training on academic anxiety and social adjustment of first-year high school students

Rezaie Fard, Akbar; Geravand, Fariborz; Amrai, Kourosh; Aalipour, Kobra

doi:10.22111/jeps.2025.49876.5826

The effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress management training on academic anxiety and social adjustment of first-year high school students

Document Type : Scientific Articles

Authors

¹ Department of psychology and counselling farhangian .university,p.o.Box 14665-889 tehran.iran

² PhD in educational psychology, Farhangian university of Lorestan, khorramabad, Iran.

³ Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran.

⁴ PhD in educational psychology Lorestan University.

10.22111/jeps.2025.49876.5826

Abstract

The purpose of this research was the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress management training on academic anxiety and social adjustment of first-year high school students in Euclid city. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research consisted of all male students of the first secondary school in Euclid city in the academic year of 2023-2024. Among the statistical population, 36 students were selected by available sampling method, and all of them were randomly assigned to two experimental groups (18 people) and control groups (18 people). The experimental group was taught stress management training based on mindfulness during 8 sessions of 60 minutes in a group format. Research data were collected using Albert and Haber (1960) academic anxiety questionnaires and California social adjustment (1953) questionnaires. In order to analyze the data, multivariate covariance analysis was used. Findings: The results showed that stress management training based on mindfulness is effective on academic anxiety and social adjustment of first secondary students in Euclid city (p<0.05). In other words, stress management training based on mindfulness has reduced academic anxiety and increased social adaptation of students. According to the results of this research, it can be said that among the useful educational approaches to reduce academic anxiety and improve the social adaptation of students, stress management training is based on mindfulness.

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