fa اثربخشی آموزش دلگرم سازی در اضطراب تحصیلی و احساس تعلق به مدرسه دانش آموزان روان شناسی تربیتی Educational Psychology پژوهشي Original <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#3300ff;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:150%"><span style="unicode-bidi:embed"><span style="line-height:150%">Encouragement is an important concept of Adlerian psychology and refers to the expression of confirmation through language or other symbolic illustration to instill courage in a person within the context of addressing a challenging situation or recognizing a potential. Receiving encouragement would enhance social connectedness, academic performance, motivation and self-efficacy in students. The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of encouragement training on academic anxiety and school connectedness in female high school students. The study was a pretest-posttest control group quasi-experimental design. Statistical population included all female students of the 10th grade of high school in Baharestan Education District 1 (Iran) in 2022. Participants were 30 female students were selected by accessible sampling and randomly assigned to in experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). Participants responded to Beatty and Brew student sense of connectedness with school scale (2005) and Abolghasemi et al.&#39;s academic anxiety scale (1996). The experimental group received eight one-hour sessions of self-encouragement training and the control group did not receive any training. Data were analyzed by univariate and multivariate analysis of covariance. The results indicated that encouragement training decreased academic anxiety and increased students&#39; school connectedness (p<.01). Therefore, providing this training is considered useful strategy for improving the motivational and social outcomes in students.</span></span></span></span></span></span></div> Encouragement training, Academic Anxiety, School connectedness, High school students 584 593 http://ieepj.hormozgan.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-554-1&slc_lang=fa&sid=1 Lida Nemati Chalavi لیدا نعمتی چلاوی masoud.hosini.g@gmail.com 10031947532846006133 10031947532846006133 No M.A. Counseling and Guidance, Roudhen Central Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudhen, Iran کارشناسی ارشد مشاوره و راهنمایی، واحد مرکزی رودهن، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، رودهن، ایران Mohammad Ellahi محمد الهی mohammad.amirabaf@yahoo.com 10031947532846006134 10031947532846006134 Yes Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, University of Medical Sciences, Fasa, Fasa, Iran استادیار، گروه معارف اسلامی، دانشگاه علوم پزشکی، فسا، فسا،ایران Elham Pakdel الهام پاکدل elham.paakdel@gamil.com 10031947532846006135 10031947532846006135 No M.A, General Psychology, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran کارشناسی ارشد روانشناسی عمومی، واحد تهران جنوب، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران Pari Daneshvar پری دانشور paridanesh85@gmial.com 10031947532846006136 10031947532846006136 No M.A. Counseling, South Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran کارشناسی ارشد مشاوره، واحد تهران جنوب، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، تهران، ایران Kadijeh Yari خدیجه یاری Khy70158@gmail.com 10031947532846006137 10031947532846006137 No M.A. Clinical Psychology, Ilam Research Sciences Unit, Islamic Azad University, Ilam, Iran کارشناسی ارشد روانشناسی بالینی، واحدعلوم تحقیقات ایلام، دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، ایلام، ایران