The Efectiveness of mindfulness components on rumination and academic procrastination in students of Bu-Ali Sina university

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of mindfulness components on rumination and academic procrastination. The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population consisted of all undergraduate students of Bu Ali Sina University in Hamedan. 367 students were selected by stratified random sampling method. Academic procrastination questionnaire (Solomon & Rothblum, 1984), Rumination scale (Yousefi, 2008), five-dimensional mindfulness scale (Baer et al., 2006) were used for data collection. The data were analyzed using multivariate regression analysis. The results showed that the components of mindfulness are able to predict the rumination and academic procrastination changes (p<0.01) and also showed there was significant relationship between the components of mindfulness with rumination and procrastination (p <0.01). According to the results of the study, mindfulness reduces one's mind to repetitive patterns of thought and reduces rumination, and by keeping one's mind present, it prevents procrastination in doing things. Rumination, by reviewing useless mental thoughts, reduces the incentive to do things in timly manner and causes procrastination