The role of Metacognition and Emotion Regulation Components in Predicting Distress Tolerance in Nurses

It is important and necessary to examine the factors affecting nurses' distress tolerance, the present study was conducted with the aim of determining the role of metacognition and emotion regulation components in predicting the distress tolerance of nurses.

The present research method was descriptive-correlation. The research community included all the nurses of teaching hospitals in Tehran in the second six months of 2022, and 120 qualified people were selected as a sample using available sampling method. And they responded to Wells and Cartwright-Houghton metacognition questionnaires, Gross and John & emotion regulation, Simmons and Gaher distress tolerance questionnaires. To analyze the data, Pearson correlation and multiple regression were used with the help of SPSS version 22 software.

The results showed that the correlation between metacognition (r=0.570) and emotion regulation components including reappraisal (r=0.304) and suppression (r=0.569) with distress tolerance was positive and significant (01/01). 0>p). And the components of metacognition and emotion regulation had 32.8% ability to predict changes in distress tolerance.

It is necessary to pay attention to the role of metacognition and emotion regulation in order to improve and promote nurses' distress tolerance.