The Effectiveness of Cognitive Therapy based on Mindfulness on Anxiety Sensitivity and Emotion Regulation

پژوهش های روان شناسی بالینی و مشاوره

Article 5, Volume 7, Issue 2 - Serial Number 14, January 0, Pages 105-122   

Document Type: پژوهشی

DOI: 10.22067/ijap.v7i2.66492

Author

Elham Taheri^*

Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran Psychiatric Institute

Abstract

Purpose: The present study investigated the effectiveness of cognitive therapy based on mindfulness on the anxiety sensitivity and the emotion regulation of the students.
Method: The design of this study was semi-experimental in a form of pretest-posttest with the control group. The sample included 30 students with the anxiety symptoms attending the psychological clinic, half of them were assigned to the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group and a half to the control group. The experimental group received eight sessions of mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, while the control group didn’t receive the specific intervention. Before and after the intervention, Anxiety Sensitivity Questionnaire-Revised (ASI-R) with Gratz and Romer (2004) emotion regulation questionnaire was completed by the participants.
Findings: The results of MANCOVA showed that in the post-test, the anxiety sensitivity and difficulties in emotion regulation of the members of the mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group had a significant decrease compared to the control group.

Keywords

Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy; anxiety sensitivity; Emotion regulation

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