effectiveness of time-perspective training on time-balancing and self-regulation among female students

Introduction: the present study has aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the timeperspective training on timebalancing and selfregulation among grade 9 female students living in tehran. method: this research was a semiexperimental research with a pretestposttest and followup design and a control group. the statistical population consisted of all grade 9 female students without balanced timeperspective (btp). the samples were chosen randomly from highschool students and were then divided into control and experimental groups. the members of the experimental group experienced the timeperspective training sessions and then the results were compared to those of controls. zimbardo time perspective inventory (ztpi) and academic selfregulation questionnaire (srqa) were used for gathering data. also, data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics of variance for repeated measures anova and post hoc bonfroni test was used at α= 0.05 through spss ver.22 software . results: findings revealed that time perspective training had an effect on the time balancing and academic selfregulation of students and there was a significant difference between the two groups (p <0.0001) while such an effect remained in the twomonth followup phase (p<0.0001). conclusion: the therapists are recommended to use timeperspective training among the students in order to provide their future with better psychological health.