Thesis:

Studying the effectiveness of mindfulness training on social, emotional, and behavioral skills in students with specific learning disabilities in the elementary school of Niqab city, academic year 2024-2025.

The present study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of mindfulness training on social, emotional, and behavioral skills in students with specific learning disabilities in the primary school of Niqab in the academic year 2025. This study is an applied research in terms of its purpose and a quasi-experimental study with a pre-test-post-test with an unequal control group. The population of the present study consisted of all students with specific learning disabilities in the primary school of Niqab in the academic year 2025. According to the center's statistics, the number of these students was 42 students. Due to access to all of these individuals, all of them formed the statistical population and the statistical sample of the study using the whole number method. Among them, due to possible dropout, 32 people formed the statistical sample of the present study and completed the Matson Social Skills Questionnaire (1983) and the Hoffman and Kashden Emotional-Behavioral Styles Questionnaire (2010). After collecting the questionnaires in the same session and randomly dividing the students into two groups of 16 people. One group received mindfulness training based on the Williams, Segal, and Teasdale (2002) training protocol in 8 90-minute sessions, and the other group received no training. Then, after the retest, both groups answered the aforementioned questionnaire in a joint session and a comparison was made between them. The results showed that mindfulness increased social skills and behavioral-emotional styles, and the hypothesis that “mindfulness training has an effect on the subscales of social, emotional, and behavioral skills in students with specific learning disabilities in the elementary school of Niqab in the academic year 2025” was confirmed.

Keywords: Keywords: Mindfulness training, social, emotional, behavioral skills.