The Effect of Mindfulness Training on the Psychological Resilience and Positive and Negative Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Female Applicants for Divorce

Subject Areas : social psychology

Danial Soleymani ¹ ( Master of Clinical Psychology, Department of Psychology, Tehran Institute of Psychiatry, Tehran, Iran )
Elham Falahmanesh ² ( MA of Counseling and Guidance, Department of Counseling, West Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran )
Shima Ershadi Chahardeh ³ ( MA of Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Islamshahr Branch, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr, Iran )

Received: 2020-08-17 Accepted : 2020-12-18 Published : 2021-02-19

Keywords: mindfulness# psychological resilience# cognitive emotion regulation strategies,

Abstract :

Present research aimed to investigate the effect of mindfulness training on the psychological resilience and positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies in female applicants for divorce. Present study was a semi-experimental with a pretest, posttest and two-month follow-up design with control group. The research population was female applicants for divorce in Tehran city in 2019 year. The research sample was 30 people who after reviewing the criteria for entering study were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced into two experimental and control groups groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 70 minutes mindfulness training and the control group placed on the waiting list for training. The research tools were the questionnaires of psychological resilience (Conner and Davidson, 2003) and cognitive emotion regulation strategies (Garnefski and et all, 2001) and data were analyzed by repeated measures method in the SPS version 22 software. The findings showed that mindfulness training led to increase psychological resilience and positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and decrease negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies in female applicants for divorce and the training results were maintained in the two months follow-up stage (p < 0/05). Regarded to the effectiveness of mindfulness training on psychological resilience and positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies, planning can be effective to its use by therapists and health professionals to improve health-related traits.

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