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Pournaghash Tehrani S S, Mortazavifar S, Mortazavifar S. (2020). The effect of social support and emotion regulation strategies on predicting the mental health of people with multiple sclerosis. Journal of Psychological Science. 19(89), 529-539.
URL: http://psychologicalscience.ir/article-1-42-en.html

Background: Several studies have been done on social support and emotion regulation strategies, but the impact of social support and emotion regulation strategies on predicting mental health of people with multiple sclerosis has been neglected. Aims: The effect of social support and emotion regulation strategies on predicting mental health of people with multiple sclerosis. Method: This was a correlational study. The population consisted of all those who referred to Sina Sclerosis Medical Center in spring(2018), 200 were selected by convenience sampling method. The research instruments were the Psychological Well-being Questionnaire (Reef, 1989), Cognitive Emotion Regulation (GARNFEIGS, 2001) and Social Support (Zimman, 1988). Data were analyzed using multiple regression and Pearson correlation coefficient. Results: The results showed that, at the level of (p< 0/01) perceived social support and emotion regulation styles explained psychological well-being variance. It was also found that cognitive styles of emotion regulation and perceived social support had a weak to moderate correlation at the level (p< 0/05). Conclusions: Social support and cognitive emotion regulation styles were able to predict psychological well-being in patients with multiple sclerosis