The Effectiveness of Mindfulness Intervention on Self-Regulation Skills and Psychological Well-Being in Orphaned Children
Keywords:
Homeless Children, Psychological Well-Being , Mindfulness, Self-Regulation SkillsAbstract
Objective: The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effect of mindfulness intervention on self-regulation skills and psychological well-being in orphaned children.
Methods and Materials: This research was a quasi-experimental study with a pretest-posttest design and experimental and control groups. The statistical population consisted of orphaned children aged 10 to 12 years in Sabzevar city who were under the supervision of the Welfare Organization. From among all orphaned children, 30 participants were selected purposefully based on the inclusion criteria and randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups. To collect data, the Self-Regulated Learning Strategies Questionnaire developed by Pintrich and De Groot (1990) and the Stirling Children’s Well-Being Scale (SCWBS) were used. Data analysis was carried out in two parts: the first part was related to descriptive findings, including indicators such as mean, standard deviation, percentage, and frequency. The second part was related to inferential findings, in which multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA) was applied to test the hypotheses using SPSS software version 26.
Findings: The findings indicated that, after controlling for the pretest effect, the difference between the pretest-posttest scores of the two groups for the variable of self-regulated learning was significant, and the mean scores of the experimental group in self-regulated learning were significantly higher than those of the control group (P < .05). The difference between the pretest scores of the two groups for the variable of psychological well-being was not significant (P = .926). However, the difference between the posttest mean scores of psychological well-being in the experimental and control groups was significant (P = .035).
Conclusion: The results of this study highlight the importance of mindfulness intervention in influencing the variables of self-regulated learning and psychological well-being among orphaned children in Sabzevar city.
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