Effectiveness of emotion regulation training on communication skills, social adjustment and emotional wellbeing among adolescent girls of Gachsaran city with two months follow-up

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of online emotion regulation training on communication skills, social adjustment, and emotional wellbeing among adolescent girls of Gachsaran city. The research method was a quasi-experimental pretest-posttest with a control group. The statistical population included all Secondary school students in Gachsaran in the academic year 2020-2021. Using the purposive sampling method, 50 students were selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria and were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. Data collection tools included MonjemiZadeh Interpersonal Communication Skills Questionnaire (2012), Bell Social Adjustment Questionnaire (1961), and Keyes & Magyar-Moe’s subjective well-being (2002). Repeated measures analysis of variance were used to analyze the data. The results showed that online emotion regulation training has a significant effect on improving communication skills, social adjustment, and emotional well-being of adolescent girls, and its effects in the follow-up phase are also stable (P<0.01). Therefore, using this intervention to improve communication skills, social adjustment, and emotional well-being seems to be practical.