Compare Mindfulness Skills among Students with Internalized Behavioral Disorder and Normal Students

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Master of Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Isfahan, Iran.

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan Branch (Khorasgan), Isfahan, Iran.

Abstract

Introduction: The occurrence of behavioral disorders can cause harm to social interactions and emotional processes. Therefore, The present study was conducted aiming to compare mindfulness skills among students with internalized behavioral disorder and normal students in the city of Isfahan.
Methods: The research method was causal-comparative. The statistical population included all first high school adolescents with internalized behavioral disorder and normal ones in academic year 2017-18 in the city of Isfahan. The sample size in the study included 50 students with internalized behavioral disorder and 50 normal adolescents in the city of Isfahan who were selected through multi-stage clustered random sampling method. The applied instruments included children and adolescents behavioral inventory (Achenbach and Rescorla, 2001) AND mindfulness skills questionnaire (Bier, Smith and Allen, 2004). The data from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement MANOVA method via SPSS23 software.
Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between mindfulness skills among students with internalized behavioral disorder and normal students in the city of Isfahan (p<0.001). Thus, students with internalized behavioral disorder have lower mindfulness skills than normal students.
Conclusion: According to the findings of the present study it can be concluded that that students with internalized behavioral disorder due to psychological, emotional and social vulnerability, have low mindfulness skills that need to be addressed by solving these problems by employing appropriate psychological treatments.

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medical journal of mashhad university of medical sciences
Volume 62, Issue 5.1
November and December 2019
Pages 776-785

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