The effect of emotion-regulation skills training on improvement of life quality of female anxious school students

This research was aimed to investigate the effect of Emotion-Regulation skills training on increase of life quality of female anxious school students in Ardabil city. This is a quasi- experimental research in pretest-posttest design accompanied by a control group. The statistical population comprised all female students of Ardabil city. To choose the subjects, firstly 5 schools were selected from Ardabil high schools by the way of multistage cluster sampling. Then, 50 girls were selected after clinical interview by random sampling and randomly divided into two groups (experimental and control). All subjects filled out whole items of Beck Anxiety Inventory and short form of life quality (SF-36) prior to and after the intervention. Gratz and Gunderson emotion regulation method was taught to anxious students in 13 session. Data was analyzed with MANOVA method. Results revealed that the training of emotion regulation skills improved the quality of life by reforming people's unreasonable belief and illogical behavior. Furthermore, it brought them recognition of their emotions and adjustment by means of increasing the positive emotions and decreasing negative ones. Training of emotion-regulation skills can improve the quality of life among female anxious school students.