Efficacy of Self-Compassion Training on Educational Resilience and Mental Vitality in High School Students

Abstract

The present study was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of self-compassion training on academic resilience and mental vitality of high school students. The research method was semi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test with a control group. It was applied in relation to the purpose. The statistical population includes high school female students in the city of Tehran in the academic year 2019-20.A multistage clustered random sampling was used to select 40 students and they were randomly divided into an experimental group and a control group (20 in the experimental group and 20 in the control group). The experimental group received seven sixty-minute training sessions on self-compassion for one month. The questionnaires used in the study were the Academic Resilience Questionnaire (ARQ) and the Mental Vitality Scale (MVS). The data were analyzed using ANCOVA method. The results showed that self-compassion training had a significant effect on academic resilience and mental vitality of high school students (p<0.001), so this intervention led to an increase in academic resilience and mental vitality of high school students. Therefore, it can be said that self-compassion training is an effective method to increase high school students’ school resilience and mental vitality by using techniques such as familiarity with the concept of mindfulness, accepting emotions, confronting emotions, personal responsibility skills, and self-awareness.

Keywords

• self-compassion training
• students
• educational resilience
• mental vitality