Efectiveness of Cognitive Emotion Regulation on Emotional Intelligence in Students With Hearing Impairment

Abstract

Objectives: Cognitive emotion regulation plays an important role in the emotional intelligence of sudents with hearing impairment. The present sudy was conducted to determine the efect of cognitive emotion regulation on emotional intelligence in sudents with hearing impairment. Methods: The present sudy was a quasi-experimental research with pre-tes-pos-tes and control group design. This sample consised of 30 sudents with a hearing impairment aged 16-20 years from the deaf school of Mir in Isfahan City, Iran in the 2018-2019 academic year. They were selected by convenient sampling method. The subjects were randomly divided into the intervention and control groups, and each group consised of 15 sudents. The intervention group received a cognitive emotion regulation program in 8 sessions (45 minutes per session), while the control group did not participate in this intervention and was kept in the waiting lis. Data gathering tools were an emotional intelligence tes, adminisered before and after the training sessions. The obtained data were analyzed using a multivariate analysis of covariance and analysis of covariance in SPSS. Results: The results indicated that cognitive emotion regulation had a positive and signifcant efect on emotional intelligence and its subscales of sudents with hearing impairment in the intervention group after the intervention (P<0.0001). Discussion: Cognitive emotion regulation improved the emotional intelligence of sudents with hearing impairment. This program facilitates the improvement of the emotional intelligence in these sudents. Thus, paying attention to the cognitive emotion regulation program is essential for sudents with hearing impairment. © 2020. Iranian Rehabilitation Journal. All Rights Reserved.