effectiveness of self-determination skills training on academic participation and help-seeking behavior among students addicted to smartphones

Introduction: excessive smartphone use among students has emerged as a significant concern, potentially compromising academic performance and overall well-being. the research aims to investigate the effectiveness of self-determination skills training on academic participation and help-seeking behavior among students addicted to smartphones.methods: a pre-test-post-test, follow-up, quasi-experimental design was applied in this study. the study population comprised female high school students in dezful city who were referred to the school counseling center during the 2022-2023 academic year due to their tendency toward smartphone addiction. a convenience sample of 30 students was randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (n=15). the experimental group received 10 weekly 60-minute sessions of self-determination skills training. statistical methods employed in this study included descriptive statistics (mean, standard deviation) and inferential statistics (repeated measures analysis of variance). additionally, the kolmogorov-smirnov test was used to assess normality, and levene’s test was used to examine homogeneity of variances. all statistical analyses were conducted using spss version 22, with a significance level of 0.05results: results indicated significant differences between the experimental and control groups in terms of academic participation and help-seeking behavior (p<0.001). self-determination skills training effectively increased academic participation and adaptive help-seeking behavior among female students with smartphone addiction (p<0.001).conclusion: the findings of this study demonstrate the effectiveness of self-determination skills training in mitigating the detrimental effects of smartphone addiction on academic participation and help-seeking behavior among female students. the findings of this study can be beneficial to school counselors, psychologists, and educators who work with adolescents.