Stress Inoculation Training on Cognitive Emotional Regulation: The Effect on Vulnerable Married Female Adolescents

Hamide Bahaodini,Ghazal Zandekarimi

doi:10.4236/jbbs.2018.86021

Abstract

Married female adolescents are the most vulnerable people that culturally marry with their parents’ permission in Iran. This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of stress inoculation training (SIT) on cognitive emotional regulation (CER) in these women. The method of this research was semi-experiment with pretest and posttest. The statistical society was the married adolescent female students from Qom high schools (80 people). First, they were assessed by cognitive emotional regulation questionnaire to find the subjects under the CER cut of point (55 people). Then 30 participants were randomly selected and were equally divided into experimental and control groups. The entry criteria for samples were female married students between 17 and 19 from low socioeconomic income. The experimental group received 8 sessions of SIT training while there was no intervention for control group. Results from MANCOVA analysis showed that there were significant differences between groups on cognitive emotional regulation in post-test. The data of pretest were the covariate factor. Finding suggests SIT is effective for cognitive emotional regulation in vulnerable married female adolescents. In addition, this training method elevates positive emotional strategies, which correlate with planning, focusing and organizing the emotions. In contrast, except self and the others blaming, negative emotional strategies differed slightly.

Highlights

Is the smallest unit of the community, which is so important in terms of personal and social effects [1]
This study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of stress inoculation training (SIT) on cognitive emotional regulation (CER) in these women
The statistical society was the married adolescent female students from Qom high schools (80 people). They were assessed by cognitive emotional regulation questionnaire to find the subjects under the CER cut of point (55 people)

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Is the smallest unit of the community, which is so important in terms of personal and social effects [1]. Emotional regulation includes two categories of positive and negative strategies. Positive strategies are positive refocusing, focus on planning, positive reappraisal and putting into perspective. Positive re-focusing on planning contains thoughts about what steps should be taken and how to cope with negative events. Focusing on planning is described as thinking about what steps should be taken and how to cope with negative events. Negative strategies contain self-blaming, blaming the others, ruminating, catastrophizing and acceptance. Blaming the others includes the thoughts that a person aims to inculpate the others for existing problems. Rumination is getting involved with feelings and thoughts that are emancipated from negative events. Catastrophizing includes an explicit emphasis on the terrible experience and acceptance explains thoughts that a person accepts the experiences and abandons his/her role in problems [5]

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