Effect Of Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy On Academic Procrastination, Self-Esteem And Academic Anxiety Of Secondary School Students By Using T-Test Analysis

Abstract

In this paper Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) is utilized as a significant tool to deal with the academic procrastination, self-esteem and academic anxiety. The sample of students whose academic procrastination tendency was moderate and high after measuring on the basis of an academic procrastination scale was selected. This study sample was delimited to secondary school students of private schools of Amritsar district, Punjab, India only. T-test was used to examine the effect of various issues on the selected students. From significance analysis it was found that there is a significant difference in the effect of REBT on academic procrastination of secondary school students as compare to the control group. Also, there is significant difference in the effect of REBT on self-esteem of secondary school students as compare to the control group. There is significant difference in the effect of REBT on academic anxiety of secondary school students as compare to control group. Finally, there is significant difference in the performance of experimental group at posttest level and delayed posttest level. Thus, overall analysis rejects the defined null hypothesis. Therefore, results indicated that REBT has significant effect on the academic procrastination, self-esteem, and academic anxiety of secondary school students.