The effectiveness of mindfulness training on stress tolerance, cognitive regulation of emotion and meaning of life in Payame Noor University students

Emotional distress as an emotional disorder in the long run can affect the social functioning and daily life of people and cause them helplessness. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of mindfulness training on stress tolerance, cognitive regulation of emotion and meaning of life in students of Payame Noor University. The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest design and control group. The statistical population of the study was all students of Payame Noor University of Gorgan in the academic year 2020-2021, of which 30 people were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into two groups of control (15 people) and experimental group (15 people). The research instruments were Gaher (2005) Distress Tolerance Questionnaire, Granfsky Emotion Cognitive Regulation (1991) and The Meaning of Life of Steger et al. (2006). The experimental group underwent 8 sessions of mindfulness treatment and the control group did not receive any intervention until the end of the study. Research data were analyzed by analysis of covariance using SPSS software version 24. The results showed that mindfulness treatment increased anxiety tolerance, cognitive regulation of emotion and meaning of life (p<0.001). Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can be effective in enduring anxiety, emotion regulation and the meaning of students' lives.