The Role of Emotion Cognitive Regulation in Relationship between Coping Practices and Social Health in Employees of Mothers of Children with special needs

Cognitive regulation of emotion plays an important role in social relationships and can affect the social health of society. The aim of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation in the relationship between coping methods and social health in mothers of children with special needs. The present research was applied in terms of purpose and correlational in terms of descriptive method, and the statistical population of this research was all mothers with children with special needs in Nowshahr city. The sample size was 148 people who were selected by simple random sampling based on Morgan's table. In order to collect research data, Lazarus and Folkman (1988) Coping Style Questionnaire, Gross and John (2003) Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and Keyes Social Health Questionnaire (2004) were used. In order to analyze the data, mean, standard deviation, correlation coefficient and path analysis were used with SPSS version 24 and Amos version 23 software. The results showed that the cognitive regulation of emotion has a mediating role in the relationship between coping methods and social health (p<0.01). It can be concluded that the cognitive regulation of emotion plays a mediating role in the relationship between coping methods and social health.