خلاصة:
Objective: The current study aimed to explore posttraumatic growth and its relationship with
cognitive emotion regulation strategies among a group of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients in
Shiraz.
Methods: Ninety-two patients diagnosed with MS were recruited from the multiple sclerosis
society in Shiraz in 2014 using convenience sampling method. The participants completed
two research questionnaires including Posttraumatic Growth Inventory (PTGI) and Cognitive
Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ). Mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient,
and multiple regression analysis were applied to analyze the data using SPSS version 16.
Results: The data showed that a majority of patients with MS experienced some degree of
posttraumatic growth. The participants scored high on the appreciation of life followed by
spiritual change and personal strength. With regard to cognitive emotion regulation variables,
only reappraisal (P<0.002) and positive refocusing (P<0.001) significantly predicted
posttraumatic growth.
Conclusion: Patients who used positive refocusing and reappraisal were more likely to
experience posttraumatic growth.
ملخص الجهاز:
"For example; a positive association has been found between posttrau- matic growth and effective cognitive strategies (Schraub, Turgut, Clavairoly, &amp; Sonntag, 2013).
Cognitive emotion regulation has been considered as a significant factor to influence growth following stress- ful conditions such as chronic illnesses (Philips, Henry, Nouzova, Cooper, Radlak, &amp; Summers, 2014).
Studies investigating types of cognitive emotion regulation strat- egies that are associated with posttraumatic growth have yielded mixed results.
There are only a few studies which examined posttraumatic growth among patients with chronic illness in Iran (Seyed-Mah- moodi, Rahimit &amp; Mohammadi, 2013).
Therefore, the present study aims to examine posttraumatic growth and its relation- ship with cognitive emotion regulation strategies in a group of Iranian patients with MS in Shiraz.
The level of posttraumatic growth observed in this study was higher than that previously reported in other MS (Ackroyd, Fortune, Price, Howell, Sharrack, &amp; Is- sac, 2011), cardiac (Leung, Gravely-Witte, Macpherson, Irvine, Stewart, &amp; Grace, 2010), and breast cancer (Hol- land Breitbart, Butow, Jacobsen, Loscalzo, &amp; McCorkle, 2015) patients.
Furthermore; the findings showed that among cogni- tive emotion regulation strategies, only reappraisal and positive refocusing significantly predicted posttraumatic growth.
Another study has also reported a positive relation between posttraumatic growth and adaptive coping (Tedeschi &amp; Calhoun, 2004).
Additionally, the results of this study provide partial support to the posttraumatic growth the- ory which assumes that traumatic events such as chronic diseases have the potential to lead to positive results as a function of cognitive (Tedeschi &amp; Calhoun, 2004)."