Developing an educational adaptation training package and examining its effectiveness on emotional-behavioral engagement and students' self-acceptance

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Educational Psychology, Isf.C., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

2 Department of Educational Sciences, Isf.c., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

3 Department of Psychology, Isf.C., Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.

10.22034/jiera.2026.579033.3477
Abstract
Academic adjustment has been of interest to education researchers, and many efforts have been made by researchers to determine the factors affecting it. Therefore, the aim of the study was to develop an educational adjustment training package and examine its effectiveness on emotional-behavioral engagement and self-acceptance in students. The research method was a semi-experimental pre-test-post-test with a control group and a follow-up period. The statistical population included all second and third year students of Yazd University in the academic year 1403-1404, of which 30 students were selected through purposive sampling and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The intervention experimental group received the educational adjustment training package in 10 90-minute sessions. The instruments used included the Emotional-Behavioral Engagement Questionnaire (Wellborn, 1991) and the Unconditional Acceptance Questionnaire (Chamberlain & Haaga, 2001). Data were analyzed using SPSS26 software using repeated measures analysis of variance. The results showed that the educational adjustment training package had sufficient content validity according to experts. The findings also showed that the educational adjustment training package was effective on students' emotional-behavioral involvement and self-acceptance in the pre-test and follow-up period (p<0.001). Therefore, educational adjustment training by counselors and professors, as well as including the principles and processes and methods of applying them in books on principles and methods of improving educational adjustment, is important and necessary

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