The Effect of Adolescent-Based Mindfulness Training on the Depression and Anxiety of the Girls with Affective Failure

Abstract affective failure brings about many psychological and emotional damages for the girls that applying appropriate psychological therapies to decrease these damages is necessity. But does the adolescent-based mindfulness training help decreasing the depression and anxiety of the girls with affective failure? therefore the present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of adolescent-based mindfulness training on the depression and anxiety of the girls with affective failure. the present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, and control group and a two-month follow-up design. The statistical population included all secondary high school female adolescents with affective failure in the town of Azna (province of Lorestan). 30 female adolescents experiencing affective failure were selected through purposive sampling method and randomly replaced into experimental and control groups (15 girls in the experimental and 15 girls in the control group). The experimental group received adolescent-based mindfulness training (Bordik, 2014) in ten ninety-minute sessions during two-and-a-half-months. The applied questionnaires were Love Trauma Inventory (Ross, 1999), depression questionnaire (Beck et.al, 1996) and anxiety questionnaire (Beck et.al. 1988). The data taken from the study were analyzed through repeated measurement ANOVA. the results showed that the adolescent-based mindfulness training has significant effect on the depression and anxiety of the girls with affective failure (p<0.001). the findings of the present study showed that the adolescent-based mindfulness training can be used as an efficient method to decrease depression and anxiety of the girls with affective failure through the application of techniques such as thoughts, emotions and mindful behavior.