Comparing the effects of Life Skills Training with & without Mindfulness Training on the Rational-Experiential Thinking, and Negative Thoughts of youth with Motor-physical injuries

The purpose was to compare the effects of Life Skills Training with and without Mindfulness Training on Experiential Thinking, and Negative Thoughts of youth with motor physical injuries. The research was experimental, with a pre-test, post-test, and follow-up design. The statistical population included male students with motor-physical injuries from the secondary exceptional high schools in Tehran. The research sample, due to the small size of the statistical population, included all the people of this population in the year 2021-2022. With the purposeful sampling method, 45 subjects were randomly assigned to two experimental and one control group. Group one received life skills training and group two, received life skills training plus mindfulness training. The control group did not receive any training. All three groups responded to the Rational-Experiential Inventory (Epstein & Pacini, 1999), Automatic Thoughts Questionnaire (Hollon & Kendall, 1980), before and after the training courses and a month after the end of them. In the end, the data was analyzed with One-way variance, repeated measurement variance analysis and multivariate covariance analysis methods. The comparison of the groups showed that both interventions had the same effects on the participants' rational ability, rational engagement, and experiential ability and negative thoughts. It can be said that both educational interventions lead to the strengthening of rational and experimental thinking systems and the reduction of negative thoughts, which is valuable in the case of youth with motor-physical injuries.