The Effectiveness of Cognitive Self-compassion Training on Cognitive Flexibility of Female-headed Households

Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Ali Sheykholeslami

University of Mohaghegh Ardabili

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of cognitive self-compassion on cognitive flexibility of female-headed households. The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design according to control group. The statistical population of this study comprised of whole women heads of households of Rasht city in the year of 2015. Among them thirty persons were selected available sampling method and randomly from this society assigned to two experimental (15 persons) and control groups (15 persons). The experimental group had received 8 sessions of 90 minutes of cognitive self-compassion program. Cognitive flexibility questionnaire used to data gathering. Data were analyzed Analysis of co-variance (ANCOVA). The results showed that after adjusting the pretest scores, the difference between the test and control groups was significant at the alpha level of 0.01. Therefore, a research hypothesis based on the effectiveness of cognitive self-efficacy on the increase of cognitive counseling components among female head of household and the difference between the group Testing and control were ensured in terms of the cognitive flexibility of post-test flexibility. So, we can conclude that Cognitive self-compassion Program has a significant effect on Cognitive Flexibility of female-headed households, than it can be used as useful method for improving the quality of life in female-headed households.

Keywords

• Cognitive Self-compassion
• Cognitive Flexibility
• Female-headed Households

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