Effectiveness of Teaching Positive Thinking Skills based on Religious Teachings on Academic Enthusiasm and Academic Adjustment of Students with Academic Procrastination

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Ph.D. Student in Theology and Islamic Studies, Department of Theology and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Kazerun Branch, Fars, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Theology and Islamic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Islamic Azad University, Euclid Branch, Fars, Iran

10.22091/jrim.2025.11671.1137

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to study the effectiveness of teaching positive thinking skills based on religious teachings on academic enthusiasm as well as the academic adjustment of students with academic procrastination. The method of this research was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research consisted of all male students with academic procrastination in the first secondary school of district 6 of Shiraz city in the academic year of 2023-2024. Among the statistical population, 30 male students with high academic procrastination based on the academic procrastination questionnaire were selected by multistage cluster sampling and randomly assigned to the experimental (15 people) and control (15 people) groups. A positive thinking intervention program based on religious teachings was taught to the experimental group for 8 sessions of 60 minutes. To collect research data, Solomon and Roth Bloom's academic procrastination questionnaire (1984), Fredericks et al.'s academic enthusiasm questionnaire (2005), and Baker and Seriak’s academic adjustment questionnaire (1984) were used. The research data were analyzed using univariate and multivariate analyses of covariance. The results of the analysis of the research findings showed that teaching positive thinking skills based on religious teachings is effective in increasing academic enthusiasm and the improving academic adjustment of male students with academic procrastination (p<0.01). Thus, one of the useful educational approaches to increase academic enthusiasm and improve the academic adaptation of students with high academic procrastination is teaching positive thinking skills based on religious teachings.

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