The Effectiveness of Aggression Replacement Training Program and Stress Inoculation on Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Delinquent Adolescent

The purpose of this study was to compare the effectiveness of two interventions, including Aggression Replacement Training (ART) and Stress Inoculation Training (SIT) on positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation in delinquent adolescent boys. The study design was semi-experimental with three groups and pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up. For this purpose, 60 adolescents of Tehran's Rehabilitation Center were selected using available sampling method and randomly assigned into two experimental and one control groups. Participants in the experimental and control groups completed the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski, Kraaij & Spinhoven, 2006) before the intervention. Then, the two experimental groups were subjected to 10 sessions of training based on the (ART) and (SIT), while the control group did not receive any trainings. After completing the training sessions, as well as two months later, all the three groups completed the questionnaire again. Data were analyzed using SPSS25 software and mixed variance analysis. Findings showed that ART method significantly affected the positive cognitive emotional regulation strategies during the research stages compared to the other two groups. However, in relation to negative cognitive emotional regulation strategies, the educational methods did not have any significant effects on the scores. It seems that ART can be used to improve the behavior of adolescents and to prevent the occurrence of delinquent behaviors