The Effectiveness of Cognitive Therapy based on Mindfulness on Anxiety Sensitivity and Emotion Regulation

The present study investigated the effectiveness of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness on the anxiety sensitivity and the emotion regulation of the students.
The design of this study was semi-experimental in a form of pretest-posttest with the control group. The sample included 30 students with the anxiety symptoms attending the psychological clinic, half of them were assigned to the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group and a half to the control group. The experimental group received eight sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, while the control group didn’t receive the specific intervention. Before and after the intervention, Anxiety Sensitivity Questionnaire-Revised (ASI-R) with Gratz and Romer (2004) emotion regulation questionnaire was completed by the participants.
Findings: The results of MANCOVA showed that in the post-test, the anxiety sensitivity and difficulties in emotion regulation of the members of the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group had a significant decrease compared to the control group.