Personality and Resilience: The Mediating Role of Self-Esteem and Cognitive-Emotional Regulation in Cancer

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in the understanding of how emotional regulation affects the mental and physical health of individuals. Emotional regulation involves the use of behavioral and cognitive strategies to change the emotional experience or intensity. The purpose of this study was to determine the mediating role of self-esteem and emotional regulation in the relationship between personality traits and resiliency in breast cancer patients. For this purpose, in a correlational descriptive study, 275 women with breast cancer who had criteria for entering the sample were selected as an accessible sample and tested for their personality traits, self-esteem, cognitive emotions regulation and resilience. The results of path analysis indicated that self-esteem mediated the relationship between personality traits (except agreeable) and resilience. Moreover, adaptive cognitive emotion regulation mediated the relationship between neuroticism, and agreeable and also maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation mediated the relationship between neuroticism, extraversion, openness, and agreeableness and resilience. The findings were discussed according to the mediating role of self-esteem and cognitive emotion regulation