The Effect of Adolescent-Based Mindfulness Training on the Resilience and Emotional Regulation of the Girls with Affective Failure

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of adolescent-based mindfulness training on the Resilience and emotional regulation of the girls with affective failure.

the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, and control group and a two-month follow-up design. The statistical population included all secondary high school female adolescents with affective failure in the town of Azna (province of Lorestan). 30 female adolescents experiencing affective failure were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (15 girls in the experimental and 15 girls in the control group). The experimental group received adolescent-based mindfulness training (Bordik, 2014) in ten ninety-minute sessions during two-and-a-half-months. The applied questionnaires were Love Trauma Inventory (Ross, 1999), Resilience questionnaire (Conner and Davidson, 2003) and emotional regulation questionnaire (Gross, John, 2003). The data taken from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA using SPSS23 statistical software.

The results showed that the adolescent-based mindfulness training has significant effect on the Resilience and emotional regulation of the girls with affective failure (p<0.001).

the findings of the present study showed that the adolescent-based mindfulness training can be used as an efficient method to increase Resilience and emotional regulation of the girls with affective failure through the application of techniques such as thoughts, emotions and mindful behavior.