Evaluation of the effectiveness of motivation management on academic resilience and academic procrastination of female high school students

This research has studied the effectiveness of motivational management training on studentschr('39') academic resilience and procrastination. The research is a quasi-experimental study with control group containing pre-test and post-test which people were randomly in control and experimental groups. The population was all high school students of Tehran selected by cluster sampling among 22 districts which number 5 was chosen. The number of students was 15 in control group and 17 in experimental group which were randomly divided to two groups after the pilot. The measurement tools were Samuelchr('39')s academic resilience questionnaire (2004) and Talkman and Sextonchr('39')s academic procrastination scale (1989). The experimental group of students received necessary training and post-test was taken from both groups. According to the analysis of data there were significant differences between two groups at pre-test and post-test. Motivational management training has increased academic resilience and decreased procrastination. According to research motivational management training increases ability of facing with educational difficulties and therefore the educational resilience. By the increasing of motivational level we can see decrease in homework procrastination also. This could be the reason for using the motivational management training protocol at schools and educational counseling centers.