comparing of the effectiveness of positive parenting and mindfulness - based stress management on students ' academic burnout

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 PhD Student in Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Research Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran

2 Professor of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author)

3 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Research Sciences Branch, Islamic Azad University Tehran, Iran

Abstract

Abstract
Introduction: Research has shown that academic burnout is affected by parenting and psychological interventions can help to eliminate burnout; Therefore, this study was conducted to compare the effectiveness of positive parenting education and mindfulness-based stress management on students' academic burnout.
Methods: The present study was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test design and control group. In which 45 parents of junior high school students in Tehran were selected by convenience sampling and based on purpose and multi-stage cluster sampling method and randomly divided into three control groups (15 people), control group. (15 people) were in the control group (15 people) and members of all groups, in two stages of pre-test and post-test, had completed the Barso et al. (1997) burnout questionnaire. For statistical analysis of the data, repeated measures analysis of variance was used using SPSS software.
Results: The results showed that positive parenting education and mindfulness-based stress management improved academic burnout scores and academic inefficiency component compared to the control group (P≤0.05). There was a statistically significant difference between the effectiveness of positive parenting education and mindfulness-based stress management in post-test burnout and follow-up (P≤0.05).
Conclusion: According to the results, it seems that positive parenting education and mindfulness-based stress management is an effective method in academic burnout of students.

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