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Designing a training package based on mirror neurons and its effectiveness on patience of children of divorce
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Mehrdad Goshtasb1    , Niloofar Mikaeili *2 , Nader Hajloo2 , Akbar Atadokht2 |
1- Faculty of Educational and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran
2- Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational and Psychology, Mohaghegh Ardabili University, Ardabil, Iran |
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Background and Purpose: Divorce of parents is one of the main events that children and adolescents encounter with its destructive effects, and discovering mirror neurons can be a positive vision for reducing mental disorders.
Thus, the present study aimed to design an educational package based on mirror neurons and its effectiveness on the patience of children of divorce.
Method: The present study consists of two parts, that in the design package of the educational package, the method was documentary and Delphi and and in the second part, quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with experimental and control groups. The sample in the first part consisted of 9 school counselors, professors of Mohaghegh Ardabili University with Ph.D. degree of psychology and psychology experts who were selected by purposive sampling method. The second part consisted of 30 students of divorce in first and second high school with low patience from the city of Sangar in Guilan province in the year 2024- 2025 which were selected by convenience sampling method and were randomly assigned into two groups (15 students in each group). The experimental group received 8 sessions of 90 minutes of intervention based on training mirror neuron, while the control group received no intervention during the treatment and at the end of the intervention, a number of volunteers received intervention. Data were collected using a Patience Scale (Khormai et al., 2010) which was performed in the pretest and posttest stages. Data were analyzed by covariance analysis using SPSS-22 software.
Results: The results showed that educational package based on mirror neurons significantly increased the overall patience of children of divorce (F=397.924) and its components; transcend (F=85.19), tolerance (F=11.14), satisfaction (F=49.82), endurance (F=50.50), and delay (F=4.42) and the experimental group had more patience than the control group in the posttest (P<0.001).
Conclusions: Based on the results, the designed educational package based on mirror neurons increased the patience of children of divorce with neuropsychological changes, so this educational package can be used as a suitable method to improve this students' patience. |
Article number: 10 |
| Keywords: Children of divorce, mirror neurons, patience |
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Received: 2025/08/24 | Accepted: 2026/01/27 | Published: 2026/02/3
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