The Effectiveness of Group Reality Therapy on Reducing Academic Burnout among Secondary Second Grade Students in Shiraz

Sosan Didehdar¹ Fatemeh Sadeghi²

1) Master of Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Firoozabad Branch
2) Master of General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Shahrood Branch

IOI Code : XBDK-DCGAK
Publication : Demo - Website of Saman Conference Management System(iscps.ir)
Abstract :
    The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of group reality therapy on reducing the academic burnout of second-grade high school students in Shiraz. The present study was conducted as a quasi-experimental intervention in a pretest-posttest with control group. The study population consisted of all high school girl students in Shiraz during the semester of 2017-2018 Among the second-grade students of “Najmeh” school in Shiraz-7 district, 40 of them were selected in an accessible manner and randomly assigned to 20 experimental and control groups. The instrument of the study was Bersu, Salanova, and Shafli (2007), which was completed by both groups before and after the intervention. Group therapy reality reality was provided for the experimental group, but the control group did not receive treatment. For analyzing the data, a descriptive level of mean and standard deviation and an inferential level of multivariate covariance analysis were used. The results of single-variable covariance analysis indicated that the group s reality therapy significantly reduced the academic burnout and its components (academic fatigue, academic disregard and academic ineffectiveness) in the experimental group in the post-test phase.

Keywords : group therapy reality educational burnout students