Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences

The effectiveness of group training on positive parenting therapy and effective communication skills with spouse on procrastination and academic self-efficacy of male students of the first year of secondary school in Farsan city.

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors
Shahab Maleki 1
Tayebeh sharifi 2
Ahmad Ghazanfari 3
Reza Ahmadi 3
1 Ph.D. Student in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran.
2 Full Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran. (Corresponding Author)
3 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran.
10.22038/mjms.2025.82062.4728
Abstract
Introduction: The purpose of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of positive parenting group training and effective communication skills with spouse on procrastination and academic self-efficacy of male students of the first year of high school in Farsan city.
Methods: The research method was semi-experimental and pre-test, post-test, and follow-up with two experimental and control groups. The population includes all the parents of male students in the first year of secondary school in Farsan city, which are 60 people (20 people in the positive parenting training group, 20 people in the effective communication skills training group with spouse, 20 people in the control group) were selected and two experimental groups were given 8 sessions of positive parenting training and effective communication skills training. The measurement tools included the academic procrastination questionnaire of Solomon and Roth Bloom (1984), and the academic self-efficacy questionnaire of Jinks and Morgan (1999). To analyze the data, statistical methods of analysis of variance with repeated measurements were used. Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the effectiveness of positive parenting group training and effective communication skills with spouse on the average scores of academic procrastination and academic self-efficacy of male students in two stages of post-test and follow-up test.
Conclusion: Therefore, it can be said that the effect of positive parenting group training and effective communication skills with spouse on academic procrastination and academic self-efficacy of students was statistically significantly different between the two educational methods.
Keywords
positive parenting education
effective communication with spouse
academic procrastination
academic self-efficacy
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Medical Journal of Mashhad university of Medical Sciences
Volume 68, Issue 1
March and April 2025
Pages 123-133