Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Predicting the Level of Academic Stress using Ineffective Attitudes with the Mediation of Mindfulness in Students.

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Monirah Marzeh HajiAghayi 1
Armin Mahmoudi 2
Seyyed Solyiman Hosseini Nik 3
1 PhD student, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yasouj Branch, Islamic Azad University, Yasouj, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Yasouj Branch, Islamic Azad University,Yasouj, Iran(Corresponding Author)
3 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, Shahid Izdpana Yasouj Campus, Kohgilvieh and Boir Ahmad, Iran
10.22038/mjms.2022.69421.4116
Abstract
Intrudoction: The present study was conducted with the aim of predicting the level of academic stress by using ineffective attitudes with the mediation of mindfulness in second secondary school students of Tonkabon city.
Methods: The method of descriptive research was correlation type. The statistical population of the research was all the students of second secondary schools in Tankabon city in the academic year of 2019-2019. 361 people were selected as a statistical sample based on the Krejci Morgan table using the cluster sampling method. The data collection tool was Godzella's Academic Stress Questionnaire (1991), Wiseman and Beck's Ineffective Attitudes Questionnaire (1978) and Baer et al.'s (2006) five-faceted Mindfulness Questionnaire. Path analysis and simple and multiple regression were used to analyze the collected data.
Findings: The results of the research showed that ineffective attitudes and mindfulness can explain 23% and 16% of the changes in the academic stress criterion variable, respectively. Also, dysfunctional attitudes can explain 19% of the variable changes in the criterion of mindfulness. Also, the results showed that ineffective attitudes have a direct effect on academic stress (β=0.42) and an inverse effect on mental awareness (β=-0.37).
Conclusion: Dysfunctional attitudes can predict students' academic stress both directly and through the mediation of mindfulness.
Keywords
academic stress
dysfunctional attitudes
mindfulness
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Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 66, Issue 2
July and August 2023
Pages 271-285