en تخصصي Special پژوهشي Research <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color:#008080;"><strong><em>Background:</em></strong></span> The aim of present study was to determine the influence of stress management on affective control and distress tolerance in mothers of children with sensory-motor disabilities.</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color:#008080;"><strong><em>Methods: </em></strong></span>This current study was a study with pretest-posttest and treatment group. The thirty mothers of children with sensory-motor disabilities were selected from sensory-motor disabilities center in Qum by 2015. The participants were randomly divided into control (n=15) and experimental (n=15) groups. Stress management training was conducted on experimental group during 8 sessions (90 minutes, twice per week). The research instrument was Affective Control Scale (ACS, 1997) and Distress Tolerance Scale (DTS, 2005). Participants were taken pre-test measures one week prior to the start of this training. Then the questionnaire was administered at post-test. Statistical analysis was performed using analysis of variance.</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color:#008080;"><strong><em>Results:</em></strong></span> The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the pretest and post-test scores in distress tolerance (&plusmn;SD: 30.2&plusmn;8.1, 33&plusmn;9.3; F= 7.58) anxiety (&plusmn;SD:40.5&plusmn; 9.2, 44&plusmn;8; F=1.79), anger (SD:&plusmn;25.4&plusmn;4.1, 39.4&plusmn;5.6; F=1.03), and depressed mood (SD&plusmn; 27.7&plusmn; 5.3, 38.6&plusmn; 7.4; F=1.70) in the experimental group (p<0.05). Additionally, the significant difference was not observed between score of pretest and posttest in positive emotion (SD&plusmn; 41.7&plusmn;9.9, 39&plusmn;7.48; F=1.08) in the experimental group (p<0.05).</span></span></p> <p dir="ltr" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="color:#008080;"><strong><em>Conclusions:</em></strong></span> The finding emphasized that the stress management reduced the level of distress tolerance, stress, anxiety, and anger in mothers with sensory-motor disability children. Hence, it can be considered enhancing the affective control in mothers of sensory-motor disability children in therapeutic intervention.</span></span></p> Stress/psychological, Affective Symptoms, Adaptation/ psycholo-gical, Mothers, Disabled Persons 100 106 http://caspianjp.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-64-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Anahita khodabakhshi koolaee anna_khodabakhshi@yahoo.com 1003194753284600916 1003194753284600916 Yes Assisstant Professor, Department of Counseling and Psychology, Khatam University, Tehran, IR Iran. Soghra Moghimi Nargh 1003194753284600917 1003194753284600917 No Msc of Counseling, Rehabilitation Counseling Center, Qum City, Qum, IR Iran.