The Effect of Teaching of Mindfulness Skills on Neurological Functions in First grade high school Hyperactive Students in Ardabil city

Subject Areas : Educational

Ehsan Golestani ¹ , akbar atadokht ²

1 - psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardebili, Ardebil, Iran
2 - Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Mohaghegh Ardebili, Ardebil, Iran.

Received: 2020-02-07 Accepted : 2020-07-18 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: hyperactivity, First grade high school, mindfulness, Neurological Functions,

Abstract :

This study aimed to investigate the effect of teaching mindfulness skills on neurological functions in hyperactive students. The method of this study was experimental and pre-test and post-test design with control group. The statistical population of this study was all students of the first high school of Ardebil in the academic year 1397-1398. At first, from of five educational area in Ardabil city, the first area and from of 8 high school on that area, 2 high school were selected by cluster sampling method, and then 36 students with hyperactive symptoms were selected by purposeful sampling method and were assigned to two experimental and control groups each 18 subjects. For collecting data, The SNAP-IV scale (Swanson, Nolan & Pelham, 2001) and The Classic Stroop test software (Khodadadi, Mashhadi & Amani, 2014) were used in the form of pre-test and post-test. Data were analyzed by Levin, Kolmogorov-Smirnov and covariance analysis tests. The results showed that the difference between the score interference and time interference in the post test between the experimental and control groups was significant at the alpha level of 0.05, indicating that the training of mindfulness skills have affects in reducing the interference of the score and the interference of time in the classic Stroop test.

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