Comparing effectiveness of resilience and emotion regulation on perceived social stigma and mental endurance in the mothers of the children with cerebral paralysis (CP)

The present study was conducted to investigate the comparison of the effectiveness of resilience and emotion regulation on perceived social stigma and mental endurance in the mothers of the children with CP. The present research method was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group design. The statistical population of the current study included all the mothers of the children with CP in the city of Shiraz in 2017. Non-probable available sampling method and random replacement were used in the present study. After selecting the sample size and replacing them in the experimental and control groups, the experimental group received teaching interventions in ninety-minute sessions once a week during three months. The applied questionnaires in the present study included social stigma and mental endurance. The results from the data analysis showed that teaching resilience and emotion regulation have been effective on perceived social stigma and mental endurance of the mother of the children with CP