The Effect of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction Program Training on Student's procrastination

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction program training on procrastination of pre-university male students. The research method was experimental with pretest-posttest design with control group. The statistical population included all pre-university male students in shahryar city in the 2012-2013 academic year, that among them by using simple random sampling, 30 students with high score on procrastination questionnaire (one standard deviation above the mean group), were selected, and randomly assigned in experimental (15) and control (15) groups. The experimental group had 8 session of mindfulness-based stress reduction program training. Tuckman's procrastination questionnaire used to gather data. The data was analyzed by covariance statistical method. Findings indicated that the research hypothesis “effect of mindfulness-based stress reduction program training on procrastination” had been proven, and students of experimental group in comparison with control group, in posttest had a significantly less procrastination. So, we can conclude that mindfulness-based stress reduction program training has a significant effect on reducing the procrastination of students.