The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Spiritual Coping in the Relationship between the History of Trauma and Symptoms of Borderline Personality

Although the relationship between history of childhood trauma and symptoms of borderline personality is widely studied, there has been little attention to lifetime traumas and investigate the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and spiritual coping as mediators of this relationship. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and spiritual coping in the relationship between the history of trauma and symptoms of borderline personality. In a descriptive-correlational study, 200 female-headed households of Neyshabur city were selected by available sampling method. The participants completed Borderline Traits Scale (BTS), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), Trauma History Questionnaire (THQ) and Spiritual Coping Questionnaire (SCQ). Data were analyzed by LISREL and SPSS software, using Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling. The results of this study showed that proposed model about mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and spiritual coping in the relationship between the history of trauma and symptoms of borderline personality has an acceptable fit with the data. In addition, maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and negative spiritual coping mediated the relationship between history of trauma and symptoms of borderline personality. The results of present study emphasize the importance of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and negative spiritual coping in developing the symptoms of borderline personality after the trauma.