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:: Volume 34, Issue 2 (summer 2024) ::
MEDICAL SCIENCES 2024, 34(2): 170-184 Back to browse issues page
The prediction of stress perception based on cognitive flexibility, perceived social support and metacognitive beliefs with the mediation of emotional cognitive regulation in Corona survivors
Mehrnaz Ronagh Sheshkalani1 , Malek Mirhashemi 2, Afsaneh Taheri3
1- PhD Candidate, Department of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran
2- Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran , mirhashemimalek@gmail.com
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Roudehen Branch, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen, Iran
Abstract:   (527 Views)
Background: The one of consequences of global epidemic of the Covid-19 virus in 2019 was the psychological impact on people, especially the surviving victims of this virus and its psychopathologic outcomes. The Aim of this study was the prediction of stress perception based on cognitive flexibility, perceived social support and metacognitive beliefs with the mediation of emotional cognitive regulation in Corona survivors.
Materials and methods: This study was done based on the assumption of descriptive correlational research and the implementation of stress perception questionnaires, cognitive flexibility, perceived social support, metacognitive beliefs and emotional cognitive regulation on 200 people from the Corona survivor community who were selected by available sampling method.
Results: The results showed that cognitive flexibility, metacognitive beliefs, emotional cognitive regulation had a positive effect on stress perception, while perceived social support and stress perception had a negative association. Also, cognitive flexibility, perceived social support and metacognitive beliefs had a positive effect on stress perception through the mediation of cognitive emotional regulation and predict stress perception during the covid-19 pandemic.
Conclusion: The present results highlighted the positive effect of cognitive flexibility, metacognitive beliefs, emotional cognitive regulation with stress perception, and on the other hand, it showed the negative effect of perceived social support with stress perception. Also, the research variables with the mediating factor of cognitive emotional regulation were predictors of stress perception in the survivors of Covid-19.
 
Keywords: Stress, Social support, Cognition, Metacognition, Emotion.
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Semi-pilot: Survey/Cross Sectional/Descriptive | Subject: psychology
Received: 2023/06/1 | Accepted: 2023/10/21 | Published: 2024/06/30
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