The Effectiveness of a Behavioral Cognitive Program to Improve the Approach Towards the Future Among Students of The General Path in The Secondary Stage

El-Malki, Maktoub Kotieb

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2024.393485

The Effectiveness of a Behavioral Cognitive Program to Improve the Approach Towards the Future Among Students of The General Path in The Secondary Stage

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Maktoub kotieb El-Malki

Doctorate Researcher in Psychological Counseling, Department of Psychology, King Khalid University, Saudi Arabia.

10.21608/jsrep.2024.393485

Abstract

This current research aimed to identify the impact of the cognitive-behavioral counseling program in improving the orientation towards the future among general track secondary school students, The researcher used the quasi-experimental approach, and a sample was formed. The experimental research consisted of (20) students who were chosen intentionally and who obtained low scores on the future orientation scale. They were distributed into two groups with (10) students for the experimental group and (10) students for the control group. The research tools consisted of the future orientation scale. Prepared by (Abdullah and Al-Harbi, 2016), and from the cognitive-behavioral counseling program prepared by (the researcher), Its validity was verified by presenting it to a number of arbitrators. The results of the research resulted in the presence of statistically significant differences between the average ranks of the scores of the members of the control and experimental groups on the future orientation scale in the post-measurement in favor of the experimental group, and the presence of statistically significant differences between the average ranks of the scores of the members of the experimental group in the pre- and post-measurements in favor of the post-measurement, in addition to the presence of There are non-statistically significant differences between the post and follow-up measurements for the experimental group, and this indicates the effectiveness of the program and the persistence of its effect.

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