Comparison Cognitive Distortions and Cognitive Emotion Regulation in Addicts and non-Addicts

The aim of this study was Comparison cognitive distortions and cognitive emotion regulation in addicts and non-addicts. This research was Causal-comparative type. The target population included All Men addicted in Bandar Abbas and Employees of government agencies in Bandar Abbas. The research sample consisted of 120 men (60 male and 60 female non-drug addict) With an age range 20-50 years selected with convenience sampling. The instrument used in this study is Inventory cognitive distortions (Abdollahzdeh & Salar, 2010) and Cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (Garnefski, 2001). Dates were analyzed with Multivariate analysis of variance by SPSS. The results showed that the cognitive distortions and cognitive emotion regulation in addicts and non-addicts had significantly different In level of (P ≥ 0/05). Thus, we conclude that the cognitive distortions is more of addicts than non-addicts and cognitive emotion regulation is more of non-addicts than addicts