The Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Training Based on Grass Model on Pro-social Behavior
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mohsen mahdian
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PhD Mahboobeh Fouladchang
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1 - Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shiraz University
2 - phd
Keywords: emotion regulation, gross model, pro-social behavior,
Abstract :
The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of Gross model based emotion regulation training on adolescent and adulthood on pro-social behavior. Among all types of pro-social behavior defending and including were selected and studied for the effectiveness of emotional regulation on them. The study used a quasi-experimental pretest - posttest design with control group. Among all first-year undergraduate students, 30 students including 20 female and 10 male students were selected through convenience sampling and were randomly assigned to experimental (15 students) and control groups (15 students) and responded to the Multidimensional Measure of Prosocial Behavior (Nielson, Padilla-Walker & Holmes, 2017). Then, the experimental group received eight sessions of ninety minutes duration of Emotional Regulation Training based on the Grass model, and at the end, a post-test was conducted for both groups. The data was analyzed using the multivariate analysis of covariance test. The results showed that training emotional regulation strategies has resulted in an increase in prosocial behaviors. According to the findings, it can be said that after training emotion regulation strategies, people are able to modify and process information about others and adjust the intensity of emotional response to achieve an average level of primary reaction and effective subsequent return to normal emotional state. The need for emotional regulation and the importance of its strategies in teenagers and young adults in educational situations was discussed.
