The moderating roleof social support in predictingtendencyPsychoactive Substance Abuse toward cognitive variables among nurses

Since theToday, to the direct relationship with the health of humans and Nurses play an important role in this regard as an important part of it,the present study aimed to determine moderatingrole of social support in predicting tendency Psychoactive Substance Abuse toward cognitive variables among nurses.
This study is a descriptive, correlation research. The statistical population consisted of all nurses working in hospitals of Kermanshah, Iran in 2016. A sample of 341 was selected using multi-stage cluster sampling. The data were collected using three questionnaires: perceived social support multidimensional Simit and colleagues (1988), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS)Grats& Roemer (2004), metacognitive beliefs Wales and Krtraygt (2004)andPsychoactive Substance Abuse QuestionnaireBahremand et al (2014). The data were analyzed in SPSS-22 using Pearson Correlational Study and Regression Analysis.
The results of the research showed that there is a significant relationship between the total score of social support, Emotion dysregulation and meta-cognitive beliefs with the tendency to use psychotropic substances (P It seemsthat the cognitive variables Regression Analysis testare predictive of the tendency to use psychotropic substances, while social support can have moderating role.