Masoud Ahmadi; Masoud Ghasemi; Mansoreh Shahriyariahmadi
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Purpose: Generalized anxiety disorder has many negative consequences, including reduced resilience. Therefore, the aim of this research was the effectiveness of assertiveness training program on the resilience and clinical symptoms of students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.Methodology: ...
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Purpose: Generalized anxiety disorder has many negative consequences, including reduced resilience. Therefore, the aim of this research was the effectiveness of assertiveness training program on the resilience and clinical symptoms of students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was semi-experimental with a pretest and posttest design with a control group. The research population was male students aged 16 to 18 in the second-high school of Karaj city in the 2019-20 academic years, which from them number of 50 people of them were selected by multi-stage random sampling method and randomly replaced in two groups of 25 including experimental and control groups. The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of 60 minutes under the assertiveness training program and during this time the control group did not receive any training. The data were collected with the resilience scale (Connor and Davidson, 2003) and generalized anxiety disorder questionnaire (Spitzer, Kroenke, Williams and Lowe, 2006) and analyzed by multivariate covariance analysis in SPSS version 24 software.Findings: The findings showed that the experimental and control groups have significantly different in terms of the variables of resilience and clinical symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder. In the other words, the assertiveness training program led to increase resilience (F-41.25, P<0.001) and reduce clinical symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder (F-28.34, P<0.001) in students.Conclusion: The results indicated the effectiveness of the assertiveness training program on resilience and clinical symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder. Therefore, counselors and therapists can use the assertiveness training program along with other training methods and programs to increase resilience and reduce the clinical symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.
Psychology
Zahra Nasiri Karbasdehi; Mohammad Kazem Fakhri; Hossein Ali Gnanadzadegan
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Receive: 2023/05/14Accept: 2023/08/12Published: 2023/09/21 Purpose: Generalized anxiety disorder can have many negative psychological consequences. As a result, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness training ...
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Receive: 2023/05/14Accept: 2023/08/12Published: 2023/09/21 Purpose: Generalized anxiety disorder can have many negative psychological consequences. As a result, the aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of mindfulness training on distress tolerance, resilience and emotion regulation in students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder.Methodology: This study in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was a semi-experimental with a pretest, posttest and two-month follow-up design with a control group. The research population consisted of secondary high school female students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder in one district of Tehran city, which number of 30 people of them after reviewing the inclusion criteria were selected by purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in two equal groups (each group 15 people). The experimental groups received 8 sessions of 90 minutes with method of Kabat-Zinn's mindfulness training (2003) and during this time the control group did not receive training. The dara were collected by short scale of generalized anxiety disorder (Spitzer et al., 2006), distress tolerance scale (Simons and Gaher, 2005), resilience scale (Connor and Davidson, 2003) and emotion regulation questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003) and were analyzed by methods of variance analysis with repeated measurements and LSD post hoc test in SPSS software.Findings: The findings of the present study showed that mindfulness training led to significant increased the distress tolerance, resilience and emotional reappraisal and significant reduced emotional suppression in students with symptoms of generalized anxiety disorder, and the results remained in the follow-up phase (P<0.001).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, health professionals and therapists can use the method of mindfulness training along with other methods to improve health-related characteristics such as distress tolerance, resilience and emotion regulation.
