Relationship of Health-Promoting Behaviors With Stress Coping Styles Mediated By Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies During the Covid-19 Pandemic: A Cross-sectional Study

Objective:

 This study aims to determine the relationship of health-promoting behaviors with stress coping styles mediated by cognitive emotion regulation strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Methods:

 This is a descriptive-correlational study, which was conducted in 2019 on 306 adults in Bandar Abbas, Iran who were selected using a convenience sampling method. Data collection tools were a demographic form, Folkman and Lazarus’ ways of coping questionnaire, health-promoting lifestyle profile, and Garnefski et al.’s cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed using structural equation modeling.

Results:

 Cognitive emotional regulation strategies negatively mediated the relationship between emotion-focused coping style and health-promoting behaviors, and positively mediated the relationship between problem-focused coping style and health- promoting behaviors (P<0.001).

Conclusion:

 The results of this study can provide the necessary solutions regarding peoples’ relationships based on the study variables.