The Effectiveness of Stress Management Training Based on Social Cognitive Components on Styles of Thinking

Stress management training with emphasis on thinking styles, as a multifaceted intervention that incorporates social cognitive components, can be considered as an effective stress intervention. The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the intervention on the thinking style.

This study was quasi-experimental with pretest and post-test and control group. To do this, the community of Stock Exchange activists were considered as a population who exposed to stress, and the employees of Stock Exchange Company were selected as study samples. The research sample was selected in coordination with the management of the company and through the publication of a written call, and finally, 40 registered volunteers were randomly assigned in two groups (20 experimental and 20 control). The Sternberg and Wagner’s Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI) (1992) was used to measure thinking styles.According to the protocol, the experimental group were subjected to 18 stress management training sessions focusing on thinking style.

The results of covariance analysis showed that stress management training program has been effective on all components of thinking styles (except royal and anarchist thinking styles).