Effectiveness emotion regulation training on reduction of symptoms depression students

Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine the efficacy emotion regulation training in reducing symptoms of depression in students. Method: The method of this research was quasi-experimental. For this purpose, 40 girl students with Depressive symptoms were selected from the University Shahid Madani Azerbaijan then in two Groups of mindfulness training and control group were randomly replaced. The experimental group received training emotion regulation and the control group did not receive training. Training a group of eight sessions (two sessions a week and a half hours) experiment was performed on all subjects before the start of training and after that, the Beck Depression Inventory (short form) completed. ANCOVA was used to analyze the data. Results: Analysis of covariance showed that the depression scores of student participants in the emotion regulation training group compared to the control group at posttest has been reduced (p <0.05). Training emotion regulation significantly reduces the symptoms of depression.