Effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Intervention on Risky Behaviors, Resilience, and Distress Tolerance in Adolescents
The adolescent faces rapid physical growth that is emotionally immature, in terms of limited experience, and fragile and vulnerable in cultural terms. The rate of change in this period is high that can cause various behavioral problems during this period.
The aim of this research was to explore the effectiveness of Mindfulness-Based Intervention on risky behaviors, resilience and distress tolerance among adolescents in juvenile correction and rehabilitation center.
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This research was a quasi-experimental study with pretest-posttest and control group. A random sampling method was used to select 30 people in the experimental and control groups at Tehran’s Juvenile Correction and Rehabilitation Center in 2019. The control group did not receive any training and just were taken pre-test and post-test. The Iranian Adolescents Risk-Taking Scale, Distress Tolerance Scale and Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale were used in this research. Multivariate analysis of variance, multivariate covariance test were performed to analyze data by SPSS V. 22 software.
The results showed that intervention in adolescents at the juvenile correction and rehabilitation center has an important impact on risky behavior, resilience, and distress tolerance.
Mindfulness can be used as an effective interventions for adolescents with risky behaviors.
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