Rooyesh-e- Ravanshenasi Journal(RRJ)

The aime of  This study was to compare emotional cognitive regulation and executive function among the female adolescents with and without symptoms of failing in love , in the form of a causal-comparative research project. Sample include 66 high school female students of Khormooj (33 students with symptoms and 33 students without symptoms), in the second term, in 1394-1395 academic years, who were selectd by purposeful sampling. For data collection, Ross Love Trauma Questionnaire, Cognitive Emotion Regulation of Garnefsky et al, and Wisconsin card sorting, Continuous performance test and Stroop softwares have been used.the data was analysed by, multivariate variance analysis.the  Results show that was significant difference between female adolescents with symptoms and normal subjects in all strategy of cognitive regulation  (except in Putting into perspective) and also normal subjects was in executive funection in component of inhibition and cognitive flexibility significantly lower than subjects with symptoms. But there was no significant difference in the scores of consistent attention. The  Results indicated  the importance of the paying attention to inhibition and cognitive flexibility in female adolescents with symptoms both in treatment and prevention.