Prediction of depression based on Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies among Female Students

The purpose of the current study is to identifying the correlation between cognitive emotion regulation strategies with depression among female students in the fifth and sixth grade of elementary school in Isfahan during the educational year of 2014-2015. The research method was descriptive-co relational and the participants were included the fifth and sixth grade students of elementary school in Isfahan city and among whom 380 female students were selected based on Cohen et al. (2000) by using clustering sampling. The data were gathered by distributing questionnaires of Garnefski & Kraaij's cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (2006), and Kovacs's depression inventory (1992). The data were analyzed by using Pearson Coefficient Correlation and Step wise Regression. The results showed that there was a significant negative correlation between cognitive emotion regulation strategies (acceptance, positive refocusing, refocusing on planning, positive reappraisal, and putting into the perspective) with depression. Also, there was a positive significant correlation between depression and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies (blaming, focus on thought and catastrophic) (p