Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Runaway and Normal Girls

Aim and Emotion dysregulation is a main core of psychopathology and behavioral disorders during adolescence. The aim of the present study was to assess cognitive emotion regulation strategies in runaway and normal girls. Using available sampling methods 50 run away girls were selected and matched with 50 normal girls. Two groups of participant completed Persian version of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ-P; Hasani, 2010). To compare two groups in cognitive emotion regulation strategies multivariate analysis of variance was used. The results showed that in self-blame, rumination, catastrophizing and other-blame maladaptive strategies, there is a significant difference between two groups and the mean scores of runaway girls is more than normal girls. Also, in refocus on planning and positive reappraisal adaptive strategies there was significant difference between two groups and mean scores of runaway girls was less than normal girls. Adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies that can better adapt to the environment and functions of interpersonal influence, while the use of maladaptive strategies that can be damage of psycho-social provide.