The Comparison of the Effectivenss of Two Patterns of Self-compassion pattern focused on mindfulness and Attachment-Based Therapy on Feeling Shame in male Adolescents with Addiction Readiness

Introduction: The main cause of adolescents and young people unable to control their emotional skills. The past studies revealed that the two modles of self-compassion pattern focused on mindfulness and attachment-based therapy increseing the self-accptance and forgiveness in people. Therefore, having these psychological traits can be usful for reducing the negative emotion such as feeling shame in persons.  The purpose of this study was to compare the effect of two models of Self-compassion pattern focused on mindfulness and attachment-based therapy on shame in adolescent boys with addiction tendency. Method: This was a quasi-experimental study with pre-test and post-test with control group in which self-awareness was based on mindfulness and attachment-based treatment as independent variables and feeling of shame as dependent variable. The statistical population of this study was all male high school students of Azna city by 2019. In this study, cluster random sampling was used.the participants were divied to the experimental and control groups. The data collection tools were the Addiction Preparedness Scale developed by Wade and Butcher (1992) and the Shame, Cohen, Wolf, Panther, and Inesco (2011) Emotion Questionnaire. Subjects in the experimental group underwent mindfulness-based self-awareness and attachment-based therapy during 8 and 6 sessions. Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference between the self-efficacy of mindfulness-based compassion and attachment-based therapy on shame in adolescents with addiction readiness in experimental and control groups (p <0.001, f =41/38). Conclusion: mindfulness-based self-compassion and attachment-based therapy can be effective in reducing shame in male adolescnts with addiction reasiness.