The Relationship between Cognitive Fusion, Meta-Cognitive Belief and Self-Compassion with Positive and Negative Affection in Female Teenagers

This study aimed to investigate the relationship between meta-cognitive belief, cognitive fusion andself-compassion with positive and negative affection in female teenagers. This method wascorrelative- descriptive. The execution method was a descriptive and correlative study. Thestatistical population of this study included all the female teenagers high school students of Ardabilin 2016, which by adopting a cluster sampling technique, a sample including 180 individuals ofteenage boys were chosen from various locations of the city. Wells meta-cognitive belief scale,Gillanders’ cognitive fusion scale, Reis self-compassion scale and positive and negative affection ofWatson et al. Research data was analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient. The results ofabove table show that there is a significant positive relationship between meta-cognitive belief andpositive affection (p < 0.01). Also there is a significant negative relationship between cognitive fusionand positive affection (p < 0.01). Also there are significant positive relationships between selfcompassion,human common sense, mindfulness and total self-compassion with positive affection(p < 0.01). There are also significant negative relationships between self-judgment, isolation andexcessive self-imitation with positive affection (p < 0.01). Finally, it can be concluded that there is asignificant relationship between meta-cognitive belief, cognitive fusion and self-compassion withpositive and negative affection in female teenagers.

Keywords:

Cognitive Fusion , Meta-cognitive Belief , Self-Compassion , Positive and Negative Affection , Female Teenagers