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The goal of this research was to compare the emotional Schemas and to study the relationship between anxiety, worry and emotional Schema in Patients with Obsessive-Compulsive disorder, Social anxiety disorder and in normal group. The sample of the study included 90 Participants (30 patients with obsessive–Compulsive disorder, 30 patients with social anxiety disorder, and 30 normal subjects). Participants completed Schemas Scale Leahy (LESS), Pennsylvania State Worry Questionnaire (PSWQ), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28). People with social anxiety disorder and obsessive–compulsive disorder had significant difference compared to the normal group in the schemas of the comprehensibility, control, consensus, guilt and rumination. However, in the schema of guilt those with obsessive-compulsive disorder were significantly different from those afflicted with social anxiety disorder. Some aspects of emotional schemas in patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder and social anxiety were different from the normal group and the anxiety and worry were associated with some aspects of the emotional schemas.

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Recently, clinical studies consider a different picture of obsessive-compulsive disorder. An image that similar to addictive behaviors in people with substance use disorder. The aim of the present study was to compare the anxiety, worry and intolerance of uncertainty among people with obsessive-compulsive disorder and substance use with normal people. It is a case control study . For this purpose, 120 people with obsessive compulsive disorder and 120 substance use disorder were selected through target sampling. Also, for comparison with two clinical sampling groups 120 people were selected from the normal population. Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Pennsylvania Worry Questionary (PSWQ) and Intolerance of Uncertainly Scale (IUS) were divided between three groups.The results showed that there was a significant difference between the scores of clinical groups and normal people in anxiety, worry and intolerance of uncertainly variables. However, there was no significant difference between obsessive-compulsive and substance use disorders. In general, according to the findings of this study and the similarity of people with obsessive-compulsive and substance use disorders, it is necessary to study the meta-diagnostic components in both of these disorders in order to prevent them.

 

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 The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the effectiveness of Mindful Self-Compassion Training on worry and Distress Tolerance in the mothers of children with intellectual disability. This semi-experimental study was conducted using pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population was whole client mothers of the children with intellectual disability in Ardabil comprehensive health clinic in the year 2022. 30 mothers were selected through the purposive sampling method and randomly assigned into two equal experimental and control.  Experimental group received 8 weeks of Mindful Self-Compassion Training 90 minutes each session. During this period, the control group did not receive any intervention. Pennsylvania Worry Questionnaire and Distress Tolerance were used in pre-test, post-test to assess the subjects. Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MANCOVA) and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA). The result showed that Mindful self-Compassion Training was effective on worry and distress tolerance. Therefore, it could be said that the Mindful self-Compassion Training improvement worry and distress tolerance scores in the mothers of children with intellectual disability.