Cognitive Behavioural Coaching Protocol for Adolescents’  Perfectionism

Authors

Academic perfectionism, Cognitive behavioural Coaching, In-school adolescents

Academic perfectionism undermines educational success among adolescents in secondary schools. Here, we

describe a protocol for a non- clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of cognitive behavioural coaching

(CBC) on academic perfectionism of schooling adolescents. The study will also explore the influence of

gender on academic perfectionism of in-school adolescents. Senior secondary school, class two students will

be included. A perfectionism proneness checklist will be used to measure their levels of perfectionism. The

study will use a pretest-posttest non-equivalent control group quasi-experimental research design involving

one experimental group and one control group. Specifically, it will involve non-random assignment of

subjects to experimental and control conditions and pretesting of subjects on the dependent measure before

the introduction of treatment followed by a posttest after the introduction of the treatment. The CBC will be

conducted using a 6-weeks problem-solving coaching plan. All functional outcomes will be measured before

and after the CBC intervention. The data will be analyzed using the intent-to-treat principle.

Vera Victor-Aigbodion1,2, Dominic Ugwoke Ngwoke3

1 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Educational Psychology, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 2 Lecturer, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria, 3Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Enugu State, Nigeria