Comparison of the effectiveness of self-compassion and reciprocal behavior analysis on cognitive emotion regulation of students with emotional failure experience

The aim of this study was to determine the effectiveness of self-compassion in comparison with the effectiveness of behavioral analysis on cognitive emotion regulation of students with emotional failure experience.

The present study was quasi-experimental with pre-test, post-test and two-month follow-up. The statistical population of this study was students with experience of emotional failure in Rasht Azad University in 1399 that 45 students were selected by available sampling method and randomly divided into three groups: self-compassion (15 people), interaction behavior analysis (15 people) and The control group (15 people) was replaced. The research instrument was Gross and John Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2003); Students of the Gilbert (2010) self-compassion therapy group and the reciprocal behavior analysis group therapy group received the Conconer et al. (2016) group therapy package and eight 90-minute sessions. Data were analyzed by repeated measures analysis of variance.

The results showed that therapies based on acceptance, commitment and interaction analysis were able to increase the level of positive emotion regulation of students with emotional failure, which the effect of both therapeutic approaches was stable until the follow-up stage (p <0.05). There was no difference between the effectiveness of self-compassion in the treatment of reciprocal behavior analysis in cognitive regulation of emotion (p <0.05).

According to the results obtained, there was no difference between the two methods of self-compassion and interaction behavior analysis in terms of effectiveness, and both methods are a good way to improve the level of cognitive emotional regulation of students with emotional failure.