Effect of cognitive remediation on cognitive and behavioral emotion regulation of female deaf and hard-of-hearing students

Abstract

This study aimed to explore the effect of cognitive remediation on cognitive and behavioral emotion regulation of female deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) students. Thirty female DHH students, ages 14–16 years, were randomly selected and assigned to the treatment (n = 15) and control (n = 15) groups. The treatment group participated in ten sessions on cognitive remediation (lasts for five weeks), while the control group participated in three general placebo sessions. The participants were assessed before and after the intervention using the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ-short) and Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (BERQ). The differences in cognitive and behavioral emotion regulation between the treatment and control groups were examined using a multivariate analysis of covariance. The results indicated that cognitive remediation training improved cognitive and behavioral emotion regulation in the treatment group. The cognitive remediation training was feasible and acceptable to DHH students. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023.