The Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Positive and Negative Affect in Resiliency of Women with Breast Cancer

Regarding the role of emotion regulation in choosing a way to overcome stressful situations, present study aimed to predict resiliency, based on cognitive emotion regulation strategies and positive and negative affect in women with breast cancer.
Method of this study is a descriptive –correlation. The study sample consists of 120 women with breast cancer that selected by purposive sampling method. For gathering data was used of Connor & Davidson resilience scale, Garnefski& et al cognitive emotion regulation and Diener& et al positive and negative experiencesScale.
The results showed that the positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, including positive reappraisal strategies, self-blame, taking a positive point of view and re-consideration of planning in four steps, indicaying total predicts 0.65 of resiliency variance (pBased on these results, it can be concluded that strengthening the positive cognitive emotion regulations should be regarded as a target for interventions and conceded resiliency training programs.