Comparison of the Effectiveness of positive mindfulness therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy on emotional regulation of depressed students in rehabilitation school

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of positive mindfulness-based group therapy andcognitive-behavioral group therapyonincreasing cognitive emotional regulation in depressed students ofAhvaz Jundishapur University School of Rehabilitation. This research was conducted in a quasi-experimental design, and during a three-group randomized controlled trial(two experimental groups and onecontrol group),a three-stage study with a pre-test and follow-up design. From the statistical population of all undergraduate students of the Faculty of Rehabilitation, Jundishapur University of Shahr-eAhvaz (1400-1399), 30 depressed students were selected based on inclusion criteria by availablesampling method and randomly and equally in the two experimental groups .All participants completed the Garnfsky et al. (2001)Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire in all threegroups before and after the intervention and one month after the intervention. The results of repeated measures analysis of variance showed that therewas no significant difference in the scores of emotion regulation in post-test and follow-up compared to pre-test incomparison of positive therapy-minded and cognitive-behavioral therapy groups and none of the treatments had a significant effect on They did not have this component(p <0.05).The results also showed that the two experimental groups, positive mind-based group therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy had a significant effect on increasing positive cognitive regulation and reducing negative cognitive regulation in students compared to the control group(p <0.01)According to the results of this study, group therapy of positive mindset and cognitive-behavioral therapy is an effective method to increase positive cognitive regulation and reduce negative cognitive regulation in the treatment of people with depression.