The effectiveness of cognitive-behavioural coaching on negative prefectionism and scholastic self-handicapping among students

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Psychilogy of Yasouj

2 university of semnn

3 Researches and Sciences University, Semnan

Abstract
This study aims to consider the effect of cognitive-behavioral coaching on negative perfectionism and scholastic self-handicapping among academic high school students in Semnan city. Research Design was semi-experimental and pretest- posttest type with control group. The study population included all of high school boy students in Semnan city. Of this students, 56 high school boy students were selected by multistage random cluster sampling method and randomly placed in experimental and control group. The experimental group encountered with 8 psycho educational sessions of cognitive-behavioral coaching. Data gathering process was performed by positive and negative perfectionism scale constructed by Terry-Short et al and Jones & Rhodewalt self-handicapping in pretest and post test for all participants in two groups. Gathered data analyzed using analysis of covariance.. The results showed that there is significant difference in the negative perfectionism and self-handicapping among experimental group and control group (p<0/001) and cognitive-behavioral coaching was effective in reducing the negative perfectionism and self-handicapping among high school students.

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