the purpose of the present study was to compare adolescents’ academic procrastination in different family types (healthy, unhealthy, content problematic and process problematic) based on the local contextual family process and content model (fpc). the sample included 493 high school students (212 girls & 281 boys) from grades seven and eight of 8 junior high schools who were from four education...

Background: Mindfulness can be effective in improving employees’ psychological wellbeing. The objective of this research was to examine the effects of mindfulness in motion-based (MIM) trainings on resiliency, emotion regulation, and job stress. Materials and Methods: The research method was experimental with a pretest-posttest design, a control group, and a follow-up phase. Using the stratifi...

OBJECTIVE This research was conducted to study the relationship between attribution and academic procrastination in University Students. METHODS The subjects were 203 undergraduate students, 55 males and 148 females, selected from English and French language and literature students of Tabriz University. Data were gathered through Procrastination Assessment Scale-student (PASS) and Causal Dime...

Background: Based on researches done  in recent decades, there are several therapeutic approaches to increase self-esteem and achievement motivation of students. Among these methods, we can refer to cognitive-behavioral therapy. The purpose of this research is assessment of effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral group training on self-esteem andachievement motivation of students. Methods: The re...

OBJECTIVE Our pilot study aims to investigate the efficacy of a Short-Term (4 weeks) Psychiatric Rehabilitation Program (S-T PsyRP), without specific cognitive remediation trainings, on the neuropsychological performance and psychosocial functioning of inpatients with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) or Bipolar Disorder (BD). Published studies with similar aims are lacking. METHODS Fifty-three...

Numerous psychological variables are associated with self-reported/estimated smartphone use in college students. However, less is known about how additional involving academic study and productivity relate to objectively-measured usage, such as procrastination, surface learning, productivity. We administered surveys 103 students from an American university collected their objective data using t...

Addressing the lack of population-based data the purpose of this representative study was to assess procrastination and its associations with distress and life satisfaction across the life span. A representative German community sample (1,350 women; 1,177 men) between the ages of 14 and 95 years was examined by the short form of the General Procrastination Scale (GPS-K; 1) and standardized scal...

Procrastination refers to the practice of putting off impending tasks due to the habitual carelessness or laziness. The understanding of procrastination plays an important role in educational psychology, which can help track and evaluate the comprehensive quality of students. However, traditional methods for procrastination analysis largely rely on the knowledge and experiences from domain expe...