The Effectiveness of a Wisdom-Based Training Program in Improving Emotional and Academic Self-Efficacy and Decision-Making Skills Among High School Students with Negative Life Orientation.

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Dept. of Educational psychology, college of Education, Kafrelsheikh University. Egypt.

2 Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Education, Beni-Suef University

Abstract

The aim of the current study was to explore the effectiveness of a wisdom-based training program in improving emotional and academic self-efficacy, as well as decision-making skills among high school students with a negative life orientation. The study sample consisted of 52 first-year secondary school students from Beni Suef Educational Directorate, who were equally divided into two groups: experimental and control. A wisdom-based training program (prepared by the researchers) was implemented, and multiple scales were used, such as the Wisdom Development Scale (Brown & Greene, 2006) (translated by  Alaa Aldin Ayoub & Osama Ibrahim, 2013), the Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale (Kirk et al., 2008) (Arabic translation and adaptation by Hosny Al-Najjar, 2014), as well as scales for Academic Self-Efficacy , Decision-Making Skills and negative life orientation (prepared by the researchers). The study adopted a quasi-experimental design, and the data were analyzed using the SPSS V25 statistical software package. The results revealed statistically significant differences in emotional and academic self-efficacy, as well as decision-making skills between the mean scores of the experimental and control groups in the post-test, favoring the experimental group. Furthermore, the results showed no differences between the post-test and follow-up test. Based on these results, several recommendations and proposed future research areas relevant to secondary school students were formulated.

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