The Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies in Employee Barrier Stress among Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ardebil

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in worker deterrent stress among employees of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ardebil. The research method was a mixed type. Which was of a descriptive type in the qualitative section and surveying type in quantitative section The statistical population in the qualitative section was the experts in the field of psychology, academic elite and experts, and in the quantitative part it was the staff of Imam Khomeini Hospital in Ardebil. The sample size was 24 subjects in the qualitative section, and it was 217 in a random sampling method. The research instrument was interview in the qualitative section and in the quantitative part it was (Emotional regulation, Garanovsky et al., 2001), and occupational stress Osipo, 2007), Questionnaire. The validity of the quantitative tool (questionnaire) was a structural validity that was validated by confirmatory factor analysis and used to determine reliability Cronbach's alpha. Regarding the findings of the research in the qualitative section, a list of cognitive emotion regulation strategies including were identified. The findings also showed that among 9 hypotheses, negative strategies for cognitive emotion regulation such as self-blame, blame for others, mental rumination, catastrophic hypothesis have a positive and significant effect, However, adaptive emotional cognitive regulation strategies such as acceptance, re-attention to planning, positive re-focusing, positive re-evaluation, minor significance have a negative and meaningful effect on inhibitory stress.