The effectiveness of compassionate mindfulness training on cognitive distortion, self-compassion, psychological capital and psychological well-being of teenage girls with anxiety symptoms

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Elahe Sarfarazi ¹ , Toktam sadat Jafar Tabatabaee ^{2 *} , samaneh sadat jafar tabatabaee ³ , fatemeh shahabizadeh ⁴

1 - 1) PhD student, Department of Psychology, Bi.C., Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Bi.C., Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran
3 - Department of Psychology, Bi.C., Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran
4 - 4) Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Bi.C., Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran

Received: 2025-07-26 Accepted : 2026-01-01 Published : 2026-01-01

Keywords: compassion-based mindfulness training, psychological well-being, cognitive distortion, psychological capital, self-compassion,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of compassionate mindfulness training on cognitive distortion, self-compassion, psychological capital, and psychological well-being of adolescent girls with anxiety symptoms. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test-follow-up design with a control group and a statistical population including all teenage girls with anxiety symptoms in the city of Torbatjam in the academic year 2024, which in a targeted way, 30 of the students who scored 16 and higher in Beck's anxiety questionnaire, they were selected and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups (15 people in each group). To collect data, Luthans et al.'s psychological capital questionnaire (2010), Ryff's psychological well-being questionnaire (1989), Neff's self-compassion questionnaire (2003), and Ellis' cognitive distortion questionnaire (1998) were used. Mindfulness training was carried out during 8 sessions of 90 minutes on the experimental group (twice a week). The collected data were analyzed by repeated measure analysis of variance using SPSS version 23 software.The findings showed that compassionate mindfulness training has reduced cognitive distortion and increased self-compassion, psychological capital, and psychological well-being of teenage girls with anxiety symptoms. As a result, school counselors and child and adolescent psychologists can use this approach in order to reduce the psychological factors affecting the anxiety symptoms of adolescent girls.

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