Thesis:

Investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness training on the academic well-being and academic identity of secondary school students in Sabzevar city

This research has been conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness training on the academic well-being and academic identity of female students in the second year of high school in Sabzevar city in the academic year of 2022-23. The present study was a semi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and was unequal to the control group in terms of its practical purpose and data collection method. The statistical population of the present study includes the second year high school students of Sabzevar city in the academic year 2023-23 with identity instability and academic well-being who referred to school counseling centers during February to June 2023-23, in the number of 61 people. In this research, 30 teenagers were selected through psychiatric evaluation using available sampling method and were randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. (15 people in the experimental group and 15 people in the control group). The experimental group received the intervention based on mindfulness during two months in (8 sessions of 90 minutes); But the control group did not receive any intervention and remained on the waiting list. Vaz and Isaacson's standard academic identity questionnaire (2008) and Tuminin-Sweeney's academic well-being questionnaire (2012). In this research, the data was analyzed by inferential and descriptive statistics using spss 25 software. The results showed that mindfulness training had an impact on the academic well-being and academic identity of second year high school students in Sabzevar city in 2014-03. The comparison of the adjusted averages also showed that the subjects of the experimental group had a higher average in academic wellbeing and academic identity than the control group. The impact of the intervention on academic identity and academic well-being was 0.702 and 0.670 percent, respectively. Based on what was mentioned, the main hypothesis of the current research was confirmed. This means that mindfulness training had an impact on the academic well-being and academic identity of second year high school students in Sabzevar city in 2023-23.

Keywords: Keywords: mindfulness, academic well-being, academic identity.