Thesis:

The effectiveness of metacognitive group counseling on psychological well-being, academic performance and life orientation in students

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of metacognitive group counseling on students' psychological well-being, academic performance and life orientation. This research was a semi-experimental type using a pretest-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population in this research was all the first high school students of Sabzevar city in the academic year of 1402-03, in the number of 1042 students in the seventh, eighth and ninth grades. Of these, 60 students were randomly selected and the psychological well-being questionnaires of Rief (1989), Dartaj's academic performance (2013) and life orientation of Chang et al. (1997) were distributed among them and after the score 30 people were selected from those who had obtained a lower score and metacognitive group counseling was performed on them. The next 30 people did not receive training. The content of metacognitive therapy sessions was implemented according to Wells (2009) metacognitive therapy manual for depression. In this research, data was analyzed using spss 28 software. Inferential and descriptive statistics were used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics were used to examine and compare the mean and standard deviation of the variables in the control and experimental groups, and inferential statistics were used to analyze the research hypotheses, which included k-s tests to check the normality of the research variables, covariance assumptions, and multivariate covariance tests. Was. The results showed that metacognitive group counseling improved the psychological well-being, academic performance and life orientation of the first secondary school students of Sabzevar city in the academic year of 1402-03n

Keywords: . Keywords: metacognitive group counseling, psychological well-being, academic performance, life orientatio