Investigating the Relationship between Cognitive Flexibility and Mindfulness with Emotion Regulation in Type 2 Diabetic Patients
Subject Areas : Journal of Excellence in counseling and psychotherapy
Hananeh Mohammad Beigi Selahshor
1
,
saeed motevali
2
1 - Master's degree, Family Counseling Department, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
Keywords: emotion regulation, Type 2 diabetes, cognitive flexibility, mindfulness,
Abstract :
Purpose: Emotion regulation plays an important role in other psychological variables including health in diabetic patients. As a result, the present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between cognitive flexibility and mindfulness with emotion regulation in type 2 diabetic patients.Methodology: The current research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was type 2 diabetic patients referred to diabetes clinic of Imam Khomeini Hospital's in the winter of 2017 and spring of 2018. The sample size based on the Krejcie and Morgan table was estimated to be 181 people who this number after checking the inclusion criteria were selected by available sampling method. The research tools were questionnaires of cognitive flexibility (Dennis and Vander Wal, 2010), mindfulness-short form (Walach et al, 2006) and emotion regulation (Gross and John, 2003). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with stepwise model in SPSS-22 software.Findings: The findings showed that cognitive flexibility and mindfulness had a positive and significant relationship with emotion regulation in type 2 diabetic patients and in addition, cognitive flexibility and mindfulness variables significantly could predict 38% of emotion regulation changes in type 2 diabetes patients which in this prediction the contribution of cognitive flexibility was higher than mindfulness (P˂0.01).Conclusion: According to results of this research, in order to improve emotion regulation in type 2 diabetic patients, it is possible to improve cognitive flexibility and mindfulness through educational workshops.
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