The effectiveness of mindfulness training on cognitive emotion regulation and resilience of mothers with deaf children

Deaf children may cause growing psychological problems for their parents, specifically the mothers as the principal caregivers. During the recent years, different research and clinical methods have been used to reduce these psychological problems. Present research was conducted the effectiveness of mindfulness training on the emotional cognitive regulation and resilience in mothers with deaf children. This study was a semi - experimental research with control group pretest- posttest design. The population include all mothers of deaf child who had referred to the special schools of Rasht in the academic year ۲۰۱۹- ۲۰۲۰. Among them, a sample of ۴۰ mothers ware selected by available sampleing and then randomly assigned into the experiment or control groups (۲۰ mothers per group). To collect the data, Cognitive-Emotional Excitement Questionnaires (Garnefski, kraaij, &Spinhoven,۲۰۰۱) and Conner-Davidson resilience Scale (۲۰۰۳) was used. After eight ۹۰-min sessions of Mindfulness training conduct for experimental group, all the three groups were reassessed at the post- test stage. Data were to analyzed by one – way ANCOVA and multivariate ANCOVA in SPSS-۲۲. Data analysis showed that mindfulness training on the dimensions of emotional cognitive regulation, including in the acceptance dimension (F=۸.۳۳, p<۰.۰۱), the positive re-focus dimension (F=۴۴ and p<۰.۰۵), next refocus planning (F=۴.۸۱ and p<۰.۰۵) and Positive reassessment (F=۳.۸۶, p<۰.۰۱), and also, the degree of resilience in the experimental group increased compared to the control group (P<۰.۰۱). Based on these findings, mindfulness training is effective in improving cognitive emotion regulation and resilience of mothers with deaf children by increasing awareness of current experiences and more efficient information processing.

کلیدواژه ها:

Resilience ، Mindfulness ، Cognitive Emotion Regulation ، Deaf ، Mothers