The Mediating Role of Perceived Social Support in the Relationship between Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Corona Disease Anxiety

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and Corona disease anxiety mediated by social support. The research design was descriptive - correlational and the statistical population included all students studying at Shiraz University in the academic year 1399-1400, of which 293 were selected by convenience sampling. They responded to Alipour et al.'s Corona Disease Anxiety Scale, Zimet et al.'s Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale and the short form of Garnefski and Kraaij 's Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. The results showed that there was a significant negative correlation between adaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation with corona disease anxiety and a significant positive correlation between maladaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation and corona disease anxiety. Also, cognitive emotion regulation strategies had a significant relationship with corona anxiety both directly and indirectly through social support. The goodness-of-fit indices also indicated the good fit of the proposed model. These results, in addition to explaining the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the occurrence of anxiety, emphasize the importance of paying attention to these strategies, especially strengthening adaptive strategies along with providing social support.