The effectiveness of cognitive self-compassion on resiliency, psychological well-being and distress tolerance of female teachers of elementary schools in Sabzevar

The aim of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive self-compassion training in increasing the resiliency, psychological well-being and distress tolerance of female teachers of elementary schools in Sabzevar. This research was quasi-experimental study using pre-test-post-test with control group. The sample included 40 female teachers of the mentioned population who volunteered to participate in training program. They were selected by random sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups (each group, n=20). After conducting the pre-test using the Connor and Davidson Resilience, Ryff psychological well-being Scale, and distress tolerance scale by Simmons and Gahir, covariance analysis was used to analyze the data. The results showed that cognitive self-compassion training has a significant positive effect on female teachers of elementary schools for resiliency, psychological well-being and distress tolerance (p < 0.05). Accordingly, cognitive self-compassion training is an effective intervention program for helping female teachers of elementary schools.