Comparing the Effectiveness of Reality Therapy Training and Mindfulness-Based Cognition Therapy on Adolescent Emotional Maturity

There is a great deal of research into the effectiveness of various therapies. But which of these two therapies is more effective?

This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of reality therapy and cognitive therapy (based on Mindfulness) the emotional maturity adolescents.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and follow-up design.  The statistical population consisted of all female secondary school students in district one of Tehran's education region. In this study, 45 students whose score was 1.5 standard deviation lower than the normative group were selected and selected. assigned to three groups of reality therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy-awareness and control.  Experimental groups individually participated in 8 90-minute sessions of Reality Therapy Excerpted from William Glaser's Reality Therapy Book (2013) and Mindfulness-Based Therapy Cognition from Rebecca Crane's (2009) Mindfulness-Based Therapy Therapy They did.  The instrument of this study was Emotional Maturity of Yashivar Singh and Mahish Bahargawa (1974) and analyzed using covariance analysis method.

Reality therapy training had a significant effect on adolescents' emotional maturity with effect size (0/809) (f= 114/417, p<0/05).  Also, cognitive mindfulness-based cognitive therapy had a significant effect on adolescents' emotional maturity with effect size (0/705) (p= 0/05, f= 64/9409).  But the t-test showed that there was no significant difference between the effectiveness of reality therapy education and cognitive therapy on adolescents' emotional maturity (f= 1/959, p>0/05).

The adolescents in both groups showed a better level of emotional maturity and both groups were equally effective in this regard.