Clinical Psychology Achievements

-Testing the causal model of the relationship between Emotional Cognitive Regulation and Quality of Life in Patients Recuperated from COVID-19: The mediator role a Health-Promoting Lifestyle

https://doi.org/10.22055/jacp.2024.46758.1373
Volume 9, Issue 4
Summer 2023
Pages 69-81
Clinical Psychology Achievements

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mojtaba Ahmadi
Ezzatollah Ahmadi

Department of Psychology, Azarbaijan Shahid Madani University, Tabriz, Iran

Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the causal model test of the relationship between emotional cognitive regulation and quality of life in Patients Recuperated from Covid-19 the mediator role a health-promoting lifestyle. The research method was such that in a descriptive-correlation design, 384 people were selected from psychology students of National universities in 2022-2023 using a voluntary sampling method. Data collection was done with Granofsky’s cognitive Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ),  Short form of Health Background Questionnaire (SF-36), and Walker's Health-promoting Lifestyle Questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed with SPSS-26 and Lisrel-7.8 software. Findings showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between positive emotion regulation and lifestyle (β=0.34 and P<0.05) and a negative and significant relationship between negative emotion regulation and lifestyle (P<0.05 and β=0.33) exists. There is a positive and significant relationship between lifestyle and both components of mental health and physical health (P<0.05). Mental health and physical health also have a positive and significant relationship (P<0.05 and β=0.59). Also, there is a statistically significant relationship between positive emotion regulation and quality of life components (mental health and physical health) with the mediation of lifestyle variables. It can be concluded that there is a positive and significant relationship between the variable of positive emotion regulation and the variable of physical health and mental health indirectly.

Keywords

Cognitive emotion regulation
quality of life
COVID-19
lifestyle
Subjects
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