Esa Jafari; Fariba Ghazanfarian; Mahnaz Aliakbari; Hamid Kamarzarin
Abstract
Emotion regulation is an important factor in psychological well being, and successful performance in social interaction and deviation from it can lead to delinguent behaviors. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of coping skills’ training on emotional adjustment of juvenile offenders. ...
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Emotion regulation is an important factor in psychological well being, and successful performance in social interaction and deviation from it can lead to delinguent behaviors. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of coping skills’ training on emotional adjustment of juvenile offenders. The study population consisted of all juvenile offenders residing in the Correction and Rehabilitation Center in Tehran. The sampling mothed of this study was a convenience sampling type. The sample size was 50 patients who were selected and randomly assigned to experimental and control groups. Eight 90-minute sessions were conducted to train the experimental group, but control group received no training. The subjects were evalualed by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale before and after training. The results of multivariate analysis of covariance showed that mean scores of emotion regulation difficulties, in the experimental group, was significantly different from control group (p < 0.0001). The mean score of the control group did not change significantly from pre-test to post-test, which showed that the adolescents who receive coping skills’ training act in an appropriate emotion regulation style. Thus, it is suggested that correcting and training centers’ teachers should be taught coping skills so that they can use these sklils for clients.
