Emotional Regulation Cognitive Strategies in Psoriasis Patients and Non-Psoriasis Individuals

Emotion regulation can be assumed as a process which by the individual affects the emotion that is currently being experienced and determines how the person experiences and expresses the emotions. Dysfunctional patterns of emotion regulation in skin patients could intensify and maintain their condition. The aim of this research was to compare the cognitive emotion regulation strategies (adaptive and maladaptive) in psoriasis patients and non-psoriasis individuals in Ahvaz city. To gain this purpose, by using convenience sampling method, 100 individuals (50 psoriasis patients and 50 non-psoriasis) were selected as the sample to conduct a casual- comparative research and emotion regulation strategies (adaptive and maladaptive) were assessed. The results of multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) indicated that there was a significant difference between psoriasis patient and non-psoriasis individuals in emotional regulation cognitive strategies (adaptive and maladaptive) and the psoriasis patients use less adaptive and more non-adaptive emotion regulation strategies in comparison to non-psoriasis individuals. It is possible that the emotional cognitive regulation problems could be considered in increasing psoriasis, and patients with psoriasis, like other skin diseases use more non-adaptive emotional regulation cognitive strategies.