The Effectiveness of Schema Therapy in Experiential Avoidance and Anxiety Sensitivity of Students with Academic Procrastination

نوع مقاله : ویژه نامه به زبان انگلیسی

نویسندگان

¹ Assistant Professor, Member of the Faculty of Psychology, Islamic AzadUniversity, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran

² Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

³ Assistant Professor , Member of the Faculty of Psychology, Islamic AzadUniversity, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran

10.22055/psy.2022.41319.2880

چکیده

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of schema therapy in experiential avoidance and anxiety sensitivity of students with academic procrastination at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: It was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design
with a control group. The statistical population included students with academic procrastination studying at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in the academic year 2021-2022. The first sample of
the research consisted of 500 students who were selected by the multi-stage cluster sampling method. These people answered the academic procrastination questioaire of Solomon and Roth Bloom (1984), and 152 of them who got
 at least one score higher than the standard deviation score were separated from Among them, 42 people who met the criteria for entering the research were selected and placed in two groups of 21 people (experimental and control group). The experimental group received schema therapy; however,
the control group did not receive any intervention. Other tools of this
research include. Reiss et al. (1986) Anxiety Sensitivity questioaire, and Gamez et al.’s (1988) Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance questioaire. the research hypotheses were tested through multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) through SPSS software (version 25).
Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and the control groups in the post-test phase in terms of experiential avoidance (p <0.0001, F = 42.81) and anxiety sensitivity (p <0.037, F = 4.67). This difference was also observed in the follow-up phase.
Conclusion: Therefore, according to the findings of this study, schema therapy can be used to reduce experiential avoidance and the anxiety sensitivity of students with academic procrastination. 

کلیدواژهها

عنوان مقاله [English]

The Effectiveness of Schema Therapy in Experiential Avoidance and Anxiety Sensitivity of Students with Academic Procrastination

نویسندگان [English]

• Iman Farjaleh Chaabi ¹
• Mahnaz Mehrabizade Honarmand ²
• Naser Amini ³

¹ Assistant Professor, Member of the Faculty of Psychology, Islamic AzadUniversity, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran

² Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Member of the Faculty of Psychology, Islamic AzadUniversity, Bushehr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bushehr, Iran

چکیده [English]

Aim: The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of schema therapy in experiential avoidance and anxiety sensitivity of students with academic procrastination at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences.
Methods: It was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design
with a control group. The statistical population included students with academic procrastination studying at Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences in the academic year 2021-2022. The first sample of
the research consisted of 500 students who were selected by the multi-stage cluster sampling method. These people answered the academic procrastination questioaire of Solomon and Roth Bloom (1984), and 152 of them who got
 at least one score higher than the standard deviation score were separated from Among them, 42 people who met the criteria for entering the research were selected and placed in two groups of 21 people (experimental and control group). The experimental group received schema therapy; however,
the control group did not receive any intervention. Other tools of this
research include. Reiss et al. (1986) Anxiety Sensitivity questioaire, and Gamez et al.’s (1988) Multidimensional Experiential Avoidance questioaire. the research hypotheses were tested through multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) through SPSS software (version 25).
Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and the control groups in the post-test phase in terms of experiential avoidance (p <0.0001, F = 42.81) and anxiety sensitivity (p <0.037, F = 4.67). This difference was also observed in the follow-up phase.
Conclusion: Therefore, according to the findings of this study, schema therapy can be used to reduce experiential avoidance and the anxiety sensitivity of students with academic procrastination. 

کلیدواژهها [English]

• Schema therapy
• Experiential avoidance
• Anxiety sensitivity
• Academic procrastination