The Mediating Role of Worry on the Relationship between Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Depression and Anxiety

the aim of the present study was to determine the mediating role of worry in the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and depression and anxiety. Three hundreds and sixty seven students (288 males,79 females) were selected by stratified sampling method from engineering school of Fars Science and Research University. The participants completed Beck Depression Inventory-II (Beck, Steer, & Brown, 1996(, Beck Anxiety Inventory)Beck & Epstein, 1993), Pennsylvania State Worry Questionnaire, (Meyer, Miller, Metzger, & Borkovec, 1990, and the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski, Kraaij, & Spinhoven, 2002(. The data were analysed using correlation coefficient, regression analysis, and path analysis. The results indicated that maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (rumination strategy) was positively related to depression and anxiety through worry. Also, adaptive emotion regulation strategies (positive refocusing) was negatively related to depression and anxiety through worry. In sum, the findings suggest that cognitive emotion regulation plays an important role in predicting worry, depression and anxiety.