Thesis:

Studying the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy on academic maladjustment and rumination in female junior high school students in Joghatai city

This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy on academic maladjustment and rumination in female junior high school students in Joghatai. The study was a quasi-experimental design using a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The population of the present study consisted of all female junior high school students in Joghatai in the academic year 2014-04. The number of these students was 315 students in three grades (seventh-eighth-ninth) based on the regional education statistics. From this number and based on the entry criteria, 36 students were selected through cluster random sampling and then, after their justification, the Sinha and Singh Student Adjustment Questionnaires (1993) and the Trapnell and Campbell Rumination Questionnaire (1999) were distributed among them, and 15 students were placed in the experimental group and 15 students in the control group. The experimental group was administered the cognitive behavioral therapy of Bakum and Epstein, and after the protocol was repeated, the questionnaires were distributed between both groups and a comparison was made between them. In this study, data were 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 variables in the control and experimental groups, and inferential statistics were used to analyze the research hypotheses, which included k-s tests to examine the normality of the research variables and covariance assumptions. The results showed that in the analysis of covariance performed for the academic inconsistency variable, the results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that there was a significant difference between the experimental and control groups in the rumination and academic inconsistency variables as dependent variables, by controlling the effect of pre-test scores. In other words, cognitive-behavioral therapy is effective on rumination and inconsistency in female first-year high school students in Joghatai city. These results show that there is a significant difference in the studied groups in terms of one of the dependent variables.

Keywords: Cognitive behavioral therapy