The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Education on Emotion regulation and Distress Tolerance in sub- Clinical Examples of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The persent study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of Mindfulness Education on Emotion regulation and Distress Tolerance in sub Clinical Examples of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder

The study was a quasi-experimental studies with pre-post test control group. This study included 20 non-clinical samples with symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder who were randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. The instruments used were Madsley Questionnaire, Gross Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and Simmons and Gahr Distress Tolerance Questionnaire. The intervention was a mindfulness-based cognitive therapy that was performed in eight sessions. also There was an evaluation session before the eight sessions began. For analyzing the data, the descriptive level of mean and standard deviation and inferential level of multivariate covariance analysis were used. Which was analyzed by spss21 software.

Results indicated That's among the emotion regulation subscales, re-evaluation and Repression and among the Distress Tolerance subscales, Tolerance of emotional distress, Being absorbed by negative emotions, Mental distress, Trying to relieve distress There was a significant difference between the two groups in the post-test.

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy training can be effective on Emotion regulation and distress tolerance of non-clinical obsessive-compulsive samples.