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The corona epidemic and the subsequent provision of virtual teaching created many problems in the field of motivation and self-efficacy of students، especially for entrance exam students. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of positive thinking training on the academic motivation and academic self-efficacy of 12th-grade high school students during the outbreak of Covid-19. The present research was a quasi-experiment of the pretest-posttest and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all 12th-grade students of Khoy city (including 846 students) in the 2021-2022 academic year. The sample size was 80 people، so 40 people were selected for each group by available sampling method. Academic Motivation Scale (AMQ, Harter, 1980) and Academic Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (ASEQ, Jinks and Morgan, 1999) questionnaires were used to collect data. Positive thinking training was implemented in a group in 8 sessions only for the experimental group. Data analysis was done by MANCOVA with repeated measures، using. The results showed that positive thinking training had a significant effect on the academic motivation and academic self-efficacy of twelfth-grade students (P<0.05). Therefore, positive thinking training can be used to improve students' academic motivation and self-efficacy.
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