Comparing the Impact of Positive Intervention and Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Intervention on the Emotional Maturity

Adolescences encountered physical, cognitive, and emotional changes; they try to increase their ability of thinking and change relationships with family and peers for new emotional and social roles. Therefore, this study aimed to compare the effectiveness of positive intervention and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention on emotional maturity in girl students. The research sample was 45 girl students in public and exemplary high schools in Zahedan who have selected through a multi-stage random cluster sampling method and were divided into two experimental (n=30) control (n=15) groups. The emotional maturity scale was used to collect data. The experimental group received the positive intervention and cognitive-therapeutic intervention for 8 weeks in two months. The data were analyzed by a repeated-measures test. Results of repeated measures analysis showed that positive psychotherapy and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy intervention had a significant effect on emotional maturity, but based on the results of multivariate analysis, the average emotional stability, Emotional regression, social maladjustment, personality disintegration, and lack of independence in the positive intervention group in the post-test and follow-up showed a significant decrease compared to the experimental group of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy with the control group and the effectiveness of the positivist intervention on emotional maturity was more than mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (p <0.01). Therefore, it can be concluded that despite the effectiveness of both interventions, the positive intervention was more effective in emotional development and emotional maturity than the mindfulness-based cognitive-therapy in adolescent girls.