The Effectiveness of Cognitive Restructuring on Emotional Regulation of Adolescent Girls Suffering from Self-Injury

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive restructuring training on emotional regulation of teenage girls suffering from self-injury.

The semi-experimental research method was pre-test-post-test and follow-up with a control group. The statistical population of this research was all female students suffering from self-injury, age range 15-18 years old in Baharestan schools in 2022. The number of 54 people who had self-injury in the last 6 months and had visited the counseling clinics were selected, and they were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups by accessible sampling method. The research tools included the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ) and the ISAS self-injury test. The subjects of the experimental group underwent eight 90-minute sessions of cognitive restructuring training, and the control group did not receive any intervention, and a follow-up was done after one month. Multivariate covariance analysis was used to analyze the data.

After examining the presuppositions of the multivariate covariance analysis, the test results showed that there was a significance difference between the two groups in emotion regulation strategies (p<0.01.

According to the findings of the research, it can be concluded that cognitive reconstruction is effective and has improved the emotion regulation strategies of adolescent girls suffering from self-injury.