The purpose of this study was to compare the performance of cognitive performance (focus and attention, memory) and the achievement motivation in adolescents living in well-being community centers and their counterparts in Tehran. In this study, except for descriptive studies of causal type were the statistical population includes all adolescents living in well-being boarding centers aged 15 to 18 years old and their normal counterparts in Tehran. Among them, the statistical sample was selected by random sampling method with a sample size of 50 adolescents residing in well-being boarding centers and 50 of their normal counterparts and tested by means of Beck's Tools, the Revised Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Adults IVA and Hermann's achievement motivation questionnaire were evaluated. The present study was used to analyze the results of the comparison of the means for describing and independent t-test for data inference. The results of data analysis showed that adolescents living in well-being boarding centers had less significant scores compared to their normal counterparts in working memory variables, attention and response control, verbal intelligence scores and Wechsler test, as well as the test of the achievement motivation. This difference Were meaningful. It is suggested that children living in counseling and educational services welfare centers should be provided to enhance the achievement motivation and executive functions.
