Abstract:
This study aimed to compare the effectiveness of the mother’s mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and cognitive emotion regulation training on externalizing disorder and self-efficacy of aggressive children.
Methods: The research method was a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test/post-test design and a control group. The study population (N=540) included all female students in the primary schools in Namin City, Iran in 2018 with their mothers. A multistage clustering random sampling was used to choose the students under study, and a total of 217 students were selected as the samples and the aggression questionnaire was completed by the teachers. Of these students, 79 students who scored high on the Shahim’s aggression scale were selected as aggressive students and 60 mothers of these students were selected by considering the inclusion criteria and were assigned randomly in three groups of 20 mothers each. The mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and cognitive emotion regulation training were executed in the experimental groups in 8 sessions, whereas the control group received no intervention. Before and after the intervention, all three groups responded to Shahim’s relational aggression scale, Sherer and Adam’s general self-efficacy, and Achenbach and Rescolar’s child behavior checklist. The obtained data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of covariance.
Results: The calculated values showed that mindfulness-based cognitive therapy was more effective (P>0.05) than cognitive emotion regulation training.
Conclusion: the findings of this study suggest that mother’s mindfulness-based cognitive therapy can be an effective intervention in reducing externalizing disorders and increasing self-efficacy in aggressive children.
Machine summary:
Research Paper: Comparison of the Effectiveness of Mother’s Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy and CognitiveEmotionRegulationTrainingonExternalizing Disorder and Self-efficacy of Aggressive Children Afsane Shokri1, Reza Kazemi1*/, Mohammad Narimani1, 2/, Somayye Taklavi1 Department of Psychology, Ardabil Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil, Iran.
The present study was conducted on 60 aggressive children with their mothers in Namin City to compare the effectiveness of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and cognitive emotion regulation training on externalizing problems and self-efficacy of aggressive children.
On the other hand, many children’s disorders, including physical, cognitive, behavioral, and emotional disorders are influenced by mothers’ emotional distress (Chew, Zain, & Hassan, 2013), that is, mothers with high levels of stress and emotional problems show weaknesses in coping with parental roles and, as a result, face difficul-ties in upbringing children that lead to increased behav-ioral disorders, including aggression in the child (Waters Virmani, Thompson, Meyer, Abigail Raikes, & Jochem 2010).
Other studies have also shown that emotion regulation training reduces externalizing behaviors (Van Aken, Junger, Verhoeven, van Aken, Deković, & Denissen, 2007; Gavita, David, Bujoreanu, Tiba and Ionutiu, 2012; and increases self-efficacy (Walsh, 2013; Akhlaghi, Yazdi Nejad, Hosseini Sabet, & Borjali, 2017).
So, the present study aims to answer these questions: How much is the effectiveness of the mother’s mind-fulness-based cognitive therapy and cognitive emotion regulation training on externalizing problems and self-efficacy in aggressive children?
4. Discussion The purpose of this study was to compare the effective-ness of mothers’ mindfulness-based cognitive therapy and cognitive emotion regulation training on externalizing problems and self-efficacy in aggressive children.