The effectiveness of self-compassion on self-esteem, emotion regulation and anxiety thoughts in the children’s (10-12 years) with depression disorder in the city of Shahrekord

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of self-compassion on self-esteem, emotion regulation and anxiety thoughts in the children’s(10-12 years) with depression disorder. It was a quasi-experimental study with pretest, posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the present study included all adolescents with anxiety disorder in the city of Shahrekord in academic year 2015-16. Non-probable available sampling method and random assignment were applied. So 30 female children’s(10-12 years) were selected through purposive method from those with depression signs who referred to consultation center in zone 2 of educational organization in Shahrekord and they were put into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received eight ninety-minute sessions during two and a half months while the control group didn’t receive such intervention during the process of study conduction. The applied instruments included depression, emotion regulation, anxiety thoughts and self-esteem questionnaires. The results of the analysis showed that teaching self-compassion has been effective on the components of self-esteem, emotion regulation and anxiety thoughts in the students with depression disorder (P<0.001). Thus, self-compassion training has been able to increase the children's self-esteem and emotion regulation and reduce their anxiety. According to the findings of the study, teaching self-compassion can be employed to improve self-esteem, emotion regulation and decreasing anxiety thoughts in the children’s and adolescents with depression disorder.