Journal of North Khorasan

Background & Objectives: The instruction of life skills is an effective way to improve the healthy personality and mental health of adolescents. In this regard, cognitive emotion regulation strategies are one of the most important factors in the favorite growth of adolescent. The current study aimed to determine the effect of life skills training in cognitive emotion regulation strategies of Bojnurd adolescents. Material & Methods: Using pre test and post test with control group experimental design 48 high school students were selected through random multi cluster sampling method and randomly assigned to control and experiment group. The experimental group received 10 sessions 'life skills training. Both groups completed the short form of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire before and after the intervention. The data was analyzed by ANCOVA Results: The results showed that the difference of modified means of experimental and control groups in cognitive emotion regulation strategies is statistically significant. In the other word, life skills training led to reduction in self-blame, rumination, catastrophizing and other-blaming maladaptive strategies and increase in acceptance, positive refocusing, positive reappraisal, refocus on planning and putting into perspective adaptive strategies. Conclusion: life skills training is the basic correlates of cognitive emotion regulation strategies so it can help adolescents to improve their psychological and emotional capabilities through designing effective intervention programs.