en عمومى General پژوهشي Research <p align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Background:</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The present study has a practical purpose and a descriptive-analytical method using a questionnaire. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive distortions and cognitive fusion with psychological problems of children with intellectual disability. </font></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Method:</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> The statistical population of the study was the staff of intellectually disabled children and sample size was calculated 100 people using Cochran&#39;s formula and the questionnaires were randomly distributed among them. The validity of the questionnaire questions was confirmed by professors and experts in the field of psychology, and its reliability was calculated 0.83 using Cronbach&#39;s alpha test. SPSS software was used to analyze the data obtained from the questionnaire. Kolmogorov-Smirnov test showed that the data were abnormal. Eventually, the nonparametric Spearman test was used to test the research hypotheses.</font></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Result:</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The results of Spearman test showed that the correlation between the two variables of cognitive distortion and psychological problems of intellectually disabled children was confirmed with a coefficient of 0.720 and sig = 0.003 and was accepted with a 95% confidence level. Due to the fact that the level of significance in the correlation coefficient is less than five percent, so there is a direct and significant relationship between the two variables of cognitive distortion and psychological problems of intellectually disabled children. As a result, H</font></font>_{<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">0</font></font>}<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> hypothesis is rejected and H</font></font>_{<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">1</font></font>}<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> hypothesis is confirmed. </font></font></p> <p align="justify"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"><b>Conclusion:</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">The results showed that the correlation between the two variables of cognitive fusion with psychological problems of intellectually disabled children was confirmed with a coefficient of 0.170 and sig = 0.003 and accepted with a 95% confidence level. Due to the fact that the level of significance in the correlation coefficient is less than five percent, so there is a direct and significant relationship between the two variables of cognitive fusion and psychological problems of intellectually disabled children and as a result, the H</font></font>_{<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">0</font></font>}<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> hypothesis is rejected and the H</font></font>_{<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3">1</font></font>}<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="3"> hypothesis is confirmed.</font></font></p> <p></p> Cognitive distortions, Fusion, Children with intellectual disability 31 36 http://intjmi.com/browse.php?a_code=A-10-1-346&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Behnaz Yazdkhasti 10031947532846004019 10031947532846004019 Yes Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Khorasgan Branch, Isfahan, Iran