Efficacy of Emotional Self-Regulation Training on the Life Quality and Resilience of Those Recuperated from Covid 19

Covid-19 pandemic causes psychological and emotional turbulence and emergence of anxiety in many people in the society. The present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the efficacy of emotional self-regulation training on the life quality and resilience of those recuperated from Covid 19.

The research method was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and three-month follow-up period design. The statistical population of the study included those recuperated from Covid 19 with the record of hospitalization in the city of Bandar Abbas in the winter of 2020. 27 recuperated people from Covid 19 were selected via snowball method and randomly accommodated into experimental and control groups (13 people in the experimental and 14 in the control group). The experimental group received emotional self-regulation training during two-and-a-half months (in 10 sessions). The applied questionnaires in this study included resilience questionnaire (Conner and Davidson, 2003) and life quality (Luthans and Aliyev, 2007).

The results showed that emotional self-regulation training has been effective on the life quality (F=28.28; Eta=0.53; P<0001) and resilience (F=39.59; Eta=0.61; P<0001) of those recuperated from COvid19 with the record of hospitalization in a way that it succeeded in improving their life quality and resilience.

According to the findings of the present study, emotional self-regulation training can be used as an efficient method to improve the life quality and resilience of those recuperated from Covid 19 through employing increase positive experiences and reduce negative emotions, identify misjudgments, and train emotional discharge.