Effect of brief mindfulness training on recall of emotional word’s in Individuals with and without alexithymia

The present study examined the Effect of brief mindfulness training on recall of emotional words in Individuals with and without alexithymia. This research method was interventional (quasi-experimental) with factorial design. Statistical population of this research was included all girl students of secondary school in aged 15 to 16 years old In the academic year of 2018-19 In the tenth grade in high schools in the city of Zanjan that have studied in. the Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20) was distributed -through convenience sampling- among 150 students for screening. In the next step, randomly selected 40 students (20 with alexithymia) and (20 without alexithymia) and placed by peers in the two control and experimental groups. After performing a pretest emotional word’s for both groups, the experimental group 4 sessions 45 minutes were trained in brief mindfulness and then, posttest emotional word’s was performed for both groups. Data were analyzed by spss software version 22. To answer research questions was used multivariate analysis of variance and One-variable Analysis of Covariance. the results showed that the most significant difference was related to recall of negative word’s in the group that received the brief mindfulness training, which is among this group too given the interactive effect Individuals with alexithymia most significant difference was related Individuals without alexithymia . Received the brief mindfulness training on recall of positive and neutral word’s there was no significant difference. .