Parvaneh Moradi - MS Student, Counseling Department, Islamic Azad University of Khomeinishahr, Khomeinishahr Branch, Daneshjou Blvd, Iran
Yousef Gorji - Assistant Professor, Counseling Department, Islamic Azad University of Khomeinishahr, Khomeinishahr Branch, Daneshjou Blvd, Iran
Mohammad Reza Abedi - Associate Professor, Department of Counseling, University of Esfahan, Esfahan, Iran

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of time perspective counseling in career concern of female high school students in Esfahan. The research method was quasi experimental along with experimental and control group as well as pretest, posttest, and follow up. The population of this study was included all female high school students of Esfahan whom studying at 2013- 2014 academic year. The sampling number of this research was 40 students whom were selected through convenience sampling. For this study, two high schools from the high schools which informed their readiness for this research were selected and randomly the second grade high school students of one of them (20 cases) were assigned to experimental group and the second grade high school students of the other (20 cases) were assigned to control group. After administrating pretest, counseling sessions for experimental group in eight 2- hour sessions were held once in a week and the control group did not receive any counseling session. The used instrument in this study was a career concern questionnaire and for testing the hypothesis, variance analysis method with frequency measurement was used. These findings indicate that time perspective counseling is effective on adjustment of concerning about the adaptability of career (P<0. 001, F=40. 81).

Time perspective counseling, career concern