Effectiveness of compassion-focused therapy on cognitive emotion regulation in high school girl students bullying

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the Compassion Focused Therapy (CFT) on Cognitive Emotion Adjustment in Bullying Female Students of First stage High School in Khorramabad city. The method of this study was pre-test and post-test with control group. The study population included all high school students of Khorramabad city was using purposive sampling, 30 students were selected as sample. Subjects completed the Illinois Navigation Bullying Questionnaire and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Then the selected samples were randomly divided into experimental and control groups. The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes of compassionate focused therapy but the control group received no intervention. Finally, post-test was performed for both groups and data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance. The results research showed that Compassion Focused treatment had an impact on Cognitive Emotion Adjustment in Bullying Students and and compassion itself is effective in regulating emotions efficiently.