Comparison of the effectiveness of compassionate mind group training and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group training on self-balance and anger control in female adolescents

The aim of the present study was to compare the effectiveness of compassionate mind group training and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group training on anger management in female adolescents. In terms of purpose, the present study is a part of applied research and in terms of method, it is a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design and control group. The research population consisted of all 10th and 11th-grade female high school students in Karaj from 1300-to 1400, from which 45 people were selected as a sample. The tools of the present study included the Novaco Anger Control Questionnaire (AI) (1994). The compassionate mind group training intervention was performed during 8 sessions of 1.5 hours and the cognitive therapy group training intervention based on mindfulness was performed during 10 sessions of 1.5 hours, But the control group did not receive any intervention. The research data were analyzed by mixed analysis of variance (repeated measures). Findings showed that group training of compassionate mind and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is effective in controlling adolescent anger (P <0.05). The results also showed that there was no difference between the effectiveness of two interventions of compassionate mind group training and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy group training in anger control (p <0.05). It can be concluded that group training in compassionate mind and group training in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy is effective in controlling the anger of female adolescents.