The effect of secure attachment style oriented psychotraining programme on intolerance of uncertainty and academic procrastination

The purpose of this study is examining the effect of secure attachment style-oriented psycho-training programme on intolerance of uncertainty and academic procrastination. This research was conducted with 24 secondary school students who were randomly chosen among the 7th students attend to Secondary School affiliated to National Education Ministery in Kocaeli during 2015-2016 academic year. The Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale and the Tuckman Procrastination Scale were used to select the students who got most scores from the scales and the Adolescent Relationship Scales Questionnaire was used to select the students who got most scores from the unsecure attachments (fearful, dismissive and preoccupied) and selected students randomly assigned to research groups (experiment n=12, control n=12). Secure attachment style-oriented psycho-training programme which include 8-week sessions and aim to decrease intolerance of uncertainty and academic procrastination and were applied to experimental group, whereas any program was not executed for control group students. In this research, 2X3 (experimental/control groups x pretest/posttest/follow up measurements) split plot design was used. The Adolescent Relationship Scales Questionnaire, the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale, and the Tuckman Procrastination Scale were administered to experimental and control groups three times at different time periods (at the beginning of sessions, at the end of sessions and two months after the study) to collect data. One-way ANOVA for Repeated Measures was used to determine whether difference between measurements and groups was happened. The scores from three measurements (pre-test, post-test and follow-up) were analyzed by using SPSS 22 packet program. According to findings of this study, it was seen that the effect of secure attachment style-oriented psycho-training programme on intolerance of uncertainty and academic procrastination, which were dependent variables of the study, was significant (p<.05). This results indicated that being in different experimental conditions influenced pre-test, posttest, and follow-up scores at different levels. Tukey Post-hoc test was utilized to determine sources of this differentiation. Results obtained from analysis of variance and Tukey Post-hoc test indicated that secure attachment style-oriented psycho-training programme was effective to decrease intolerance of uncertainty and academic procrastination and its effect for the duration of the 2-month trial. However, it was determined no significant changes in levels of intolerance of uncertainty and academic procrastination on control group. Conclusion was discussed in the light of the results and suggestions were proposed for further studies. Keywords: Secure attachment, Intolerance of uncertainty and Academic procrastination.