The effectiveness of group counseling based on reality therapy on academic resilience and academic procrastination in visually impaired students

This research aimed to determine the effectiveness of group counseling based on reality therapy on academic resilience and academic procrastination in students with visual impairment. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the present study consisted of all visually impaired students in Tehran in the academic year 2020-2021, of which 30 people, 15 people in the control group, and 15 people in the experimental group were selected through available sampling. They were randomly placed in two groups. To collect data, Solomon and Rothblom's Procrastination Assessment Scale - Student (PASS, 1984), Samuels's academic resilience (ARI, 2004), and Glasser's reality therapy protocol (2010) were used during 8 sessions of 90 minutes in person. To analyze the data, the multivariate covariance test was used. The research findings showed that by controlling the effect of the pre-test, there was a significant difference at the level of 0.05 between the average of the post-test of academic resilience and academic procrastination in the two experimental and control groups. As a result, the educational method of reality therapy can be used as one of the new positive approaches to improve the academic performance of visually impaired students with relatively stable effects, to increase academic resilience.