Effectiveness of Mindfulness-based Stress Reduction Group Training on Resilience and high-risk Behaviors of Students with Self-harm Experience in Raz and Jorglan Cities

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the effectiveness of mindfulness-based stress reduction group training on high-risk behaviors and resilience of students with experience of injury in Raz and Jarglan cities.

The current research is semi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of the research is all secondary school students in Raz and Jorglan cities. The research sample included 40 students who were selected from among the students with a history of self-harm using a purposive sampling method and randomly replaced in two experimental and control groups. After that, the experimental group was taught mindfulness skills once a week for an hour and a half and in total 10 sessions. Research data was collected through the Conner and Davidson’s resilience scale (2003) as well as the risk of Iranian adolescents using Zadeh Mohammadi and Ahmad Abadi’s (2008) scale. After the last training session was completed, the same post -test conditions were implemented at the same time for the two groups of experimental and control. And the data obtained was analyzed via multi -variable analysis (MANCOVA).

The obtained results confirm the effect of mindfulness training on increasing resilience and reducing risky behaviors and its components in the experimental group.

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