Examining the effectiveness of cognitive emotion regulation training on negative affect decrease, anger control, and emotional empathy increase in high school students with one/both divorced parents in Tabriz

The aim of this study was to examine the effectiveness of cognitive emotion regulation training on negative affect decrease, anger control, and emotional empathy increase in high school students with one/both divorced parent. Research method was a quasi-experimental design with control and experimental groups, and follow-up. The population was all of high school students with divorced parents. 30 of them (15 female and 15 male) were selected as a sample by the use of Simple Random Sampling and randomly replaced in control and experimental groups. 10 sessions of intervention were conducted for experimental group. Results showed that intervention with CBT has been effective on control of anger and an increase of emotional empathy in high school students in comparison with control group in pretest–posttest, and the scores of negative affect have significantly declined.