The Effectiveness of the Schema Therapy on Rumination and Procrastination of the Students

Academic procrastination is a way to escape from living in the present and to postpone what we have decided to do to the future. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of schema therapy on rumination and academic procrastination of Yasouj University students. The design of this study was a quasi-experimental pretest, post-test with a control group. The statistical population included all undergraduate students of Yasouj University. Thus, among the undergraduate students of Yasouj University, students who wished to participate in the project were registered and then they were asked to complete the consent form in the research. Out of 72 volunteers, 60 student were registered and assigned to two experimental and control groups. They completed the Nalin Hooksma and Murrow rumination Questionnaires and the Lee procrastination Scale. The subjects in the experimental group were trained in schema therapy for 8 sessions and the control group did not receive any training. Then both groups were re-evaluated by post-test. One month later, post-test was followed up from both groups. After the pre-test, data analysis was performed using ANKOA analysis method. The results showed that the post-test scores of procrastination were significantly different between the two groups; this means that the procrastination of the experimental group has decreased after training in schema areas. According to the results of the present study, it can be concluded that schema therapy has positively and significantly treated rumination and academic procrastination.