The effectiveness of social responsibility-based education on students' unproductive academic behaviors

Academic counterproductive behaviors are intentional behaviors that endanger the norms of a group or organization and reduce the health of the group or organization. As a result, the aim of this research was to determine the effectiveness of education based on social responsibility on students' academic counterproductive behaviors.

This research in terms of purpose was practical and in terms of implementation method was semi-experimental with a pre-test, post-test and 45-day follow-up plan with a control group. The research population was the 9th grade male students of Tehran city in the academic years 2021-22, which 34 people of them were selected with using the available sampling method and randomly divided into two equal groups (17 people in each group) including experimental and control groups. The experimental group received education based on social responsibility for 10 sessions of 45 minutes, and the control group did not receive any education during this time. Data were collected with the academic counterproductive behaviors scale (Rimkus, 2012) and analyzed with the method of variance analysis with repeated measurements and bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS-24 software.

The results showed that education based on social responsibility reduced students' academic counterproductive behaviors and all its components, including cheating and plagiarism, alcohol consumption, drug consumption, discriminatory behavior, absenteeism, procrastination, deviant behavior and laziness and the results in the follow-up phase also remained (P