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The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Perceived Stress in Tehran Citizens: The Mediating Role of Religious Orientation
Sayeed Hossein Tabatabaee1 , Jamshid Jarareh * 2, Asghar Jafari3
1- Ph. D Student of Counseling, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran. , Ja.jarareh@sru.ac.ir
3- Department of Psychology, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran
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A review of the literature indicates that religious factors can play a role in the cognitive regulation of emotions, which in turn enhances psychological well-being and reduces the emotional problems and negative emotions in adults. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of religious orientation in the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress in Tehran citizens. The statistical population was all people in Tehran city in 2021. 480 people were selected by the available sampling method and responded online to the perceived stress scale (PSC, Cohen et al., 1983), cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ, Garnefski et al., 2001) and religious orientation scale (ROS, Allport and Ross, 1967). The results showed that there was a significant negative correlation between adaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation and religious orientation (external and internal) and perceived stress, and a significant positive correlation between maladaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation and perceived stress. Also, cognitive emotion regulation strategies had a significant relationship with perceived stress, both directly and indirectly, through religious orientation (external and internal). The goodness-of-fit indices also indicated the good fit of the proposed model. Thus, the perceived stress is influenced by cognitive emotion regulation and religious orientation (external and internal). This finding can be used to design an intervention to reduce perceived stress symptoms in adults.
Keywords: Maladaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation, Adaptive Cognitive Emotion Regulation, Perceived Stress, External Religious Orientation, Internal Religious Orientation
     
Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2024/04/2 | Revised: 2024/08/7 | Accepted: 2024/08/9 | ePublished ahead of print: 2024/08/12
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