Psychology
Soheila Jafari ghale Beig; Masoumeh Eslami; Tayebeh Rahimi Pordanjani
Abstract
Purpose: Socially disadvantaged people have many psychological problems, especially in the field of increasing dark personality traits and decreasing psychological adjustment. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of mindfulness training and compassion ...
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Purpose: Socially disadvantaged people have many psychological problems, especially in the field of increasing dark personality traits and decreasing psychological adjustment. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of mindfulness training and compassion therapy on dark personality traits and psychological adaptation in socially disadvantaged girls.Methodology: This research in terms of purpose was practical and in terms of implementation, method was semi-experimental with a pretest, posttest and one-month follow-up design with a control group. The research population was socially disadvantaged teenage girls in health homes under the supervision of the welfare organization of North Khorasan province in the second half of 2021 year. The research sample was considered 45 people who were selected by available sampling method and were replaced by simple random method in three equal groups including two experimental groups and one control group. Each of the experimental groups received 8 sessions of 60 minutes (one session per week) separately with methods of mindfulness training and compassion therapy, and the control group did not receive any training during this period. The research tools were dark personality traits questionnaire (Jonason and Webster, 2010) and psychological adaptation scale (Biesecker et al., 2013) and the data obtained from their implementation were analyzed by analysis variance with repeated measures and Bonferroni post hoc test in SPSS software.Findings: The findings showed that both methods of mindfulness training and compassion therapy in compared to the control group caused a significant decrease in dark personality traits (and its three components including narcissism, machiavellism and psychopathy) and a significant increase in psychological adaptation (and its three components including experience, deliberation and social integration) in the posttest and one month follow-up stages in socially disadvantaged girls (P<0.001). Other findings showed that there was no significant difference between the two methods of mindfulness training and compassion therapy in reducing dark personality traits and psychological adaptation and the components of each of them in the posttest and one month follow-up stages in socially disadvantaged girls (P>0.05).Conclusion: According to the results of this study, health professionals and therapists can use both mindfulness training and compassion therapy methods in their psychological interventions to improve health-related characteristics, including reducing dark personality traits and increasing psychological adaptation.
Psychology
Zahra Nasiri Karbasdehi; Mohammad Kazem Fakhri; Hossein Ali Gnanadzadegan
Abstract
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.
