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Introduction: Regarding the role of emotion regulation in choosing a way to overcome stressful situations, present study aimed to predict resiliency, based on cognitive emotion regulation strategies and positive and negative affect in women with breast cancer.

Methods: Method of this study is a descriptive –correlation. The study sample consists of 120 women with breast cancer that selected by purposive sampling method. For gathering data was used of Connor & Davidson resilience scale, Garnefski& et al  cognitive emotion regulation and Diener& et al positive and negative experiencesScale.

Results:The results showed that the positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, including  positive reappraisal strategies, self-blame, taking a positive point of view  and re-consideration of planning in four steps, indicaying total predicts  0.65 of resiliency variance (p<0.001), but positive and negative emotions were not able to predict resiliency. Resiliency with positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and positive affect had a significant positive correlation, with negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and negative affect had a significant negative correlation (p<0.001).

Conclusion:Based on these results, it can be concluded that strengthening the positive cognitive emotion regulations should be regarded as a target for interventions and conceded resiliency training programs.

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Introduction: Depression is a common and potential disabling factor in infertile females. The aim of the present research was to examine the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and resilience, and depression of infertile females.

Methods: This research was a correlational study. The sample of the present study included three hundred infertile females referred to the infertility institution of Tabriz Jahad University, which were selected using the random sampling method. For collecting the data, Garnefski cognitive emotion regulation scale, Conner resilience questionnaire and Beck depression inventory were used. The data were analyzed with Pearson correlation test and multiple regression analysis and SPSS software version 22. The P value was considered significant at 0.05.

Results: There was a positive relationship between depression of infertile females and self-blame, others-blame, preoccupation, catastrophizing, and putting into perspective, and there was a negative significant relationship with resilience, renewed positive concentration, renewed positive appraisal, acceptance and renewed concentration on scheduling. The results of multivariate correlation coefficient through the Enter method showed that variable resilience and cognitive emotion regulation had a role (R2 = 49.1%) in explaining depression in infertile females.

Conclusions: In accordance with the reverse relationship between depression in infertile females and resilience and cognitive emotion regulation strategies, it seems that resilience and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies can lead to a decrease in depression in infertile females.

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Introduction: Being infected with HIV, followed by AIDS, is accompanied with a wide range of psychological factors such as emotional regulation and emotional schemas, in connection with which the compliance of patients with the disease is affected. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to compare the cognitive emotion regulation strategies and emotional schemas in people with HIV and normal people.

Methods: The study was causal-comparative, cross-sectional. The inclusion criteria were selected and measured by cognitive excitement and emotion regulation (Garnefski et al., 2004) and emotional schemas (Leahy, 2002) tools. After data collection, data analysis by SPSS-16 program and multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) was performed.

Results: Analyzing data using Multivariate Analysis of Variance (MANOVA) indicated that there were significant differences between the two groups in some subscales of cognitive emotion regulation (i.e. rumination (P = 0.001), putting into perspective (P = 0.003), and other-blame (P = 0.046) and emotional schemas (i.e. rumination (P = 0.001), emotional self-awareness (P = 0.001), uncontrollability (P = 0.0001), validation by others (P = 0.031), comprehensibility (P = 0.0001), blame (P = 0.0001), simplistic view of emotions (P = 0.049), higher values (P = 0.002), and acceptance of feelings (P = 0.0001). However, no significant difference was found between patients with HIV and normal controls in other subscales.

Conclusions: Considering the current results, addressing psychological aspects associated with HIV infection and particularly helping patients to improve their emotion regulation strategies and maladaptive emotional schemas is of great importance.

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Introduction: Type 2 diabetes is the most common chronic disease that creates a lot of restrictions for patients and their families. Hence promotion of psychological characteristics of this group has been considered by many therapists. This study aimed at investigating the effect of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on cognitive emotion regulation and alexithymia of patients with type 2 diabetes.

Methods: The present research was semi-experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The population of the research included all patients with type 2 diabetes that had referred to health care centers of Ahvaz city, during year 2015. Overall, 30 patient were selected through available sampling method and randomly assigned to 2 equal groups (each group consisted of 15 people). The experimental group took part in eight 90-minute sessions of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment and the control group was placed on the waiting list. Groups completed the Garnefski et al. cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire and Bagby et al. Toronto alexithymia scale as a pre-test and post-test. Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MONCOVA) method and using the SPSS-21 software.

Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the averages of cognitive emotion regulation and alexithymia of experimental and control groups in the post-test stage. On the other hand, the method of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment significantly led to an increase in cognitive emotion regulation and decrease in alexithymia of patients with type 2 diabetes (P < 0.01).

Conclusions: According to the effect of group therapy based on acceptance and commitment on cognitive emotion regulation and alexithymia, it is suggested for counselors, therapists, and clinical psychologists to use the mentioned method to increase cognitive emotion regulation and decrease alexithymia of patients with type 2 diabetes.

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Introduction: This study aimed to compare the inhibition/activation behavioral systems, positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and cognitive failures in patients with schizophrenia disorder, depression disorder and normal individuals.
Methods: The method was a descriptive and causal-comparative study and the statistical population included all male patients (n=65) with schizophrenia and depression in Isar and Fatemi Hospitals in Ardabil city in 2016. Thirty schizophrenic patients and 30 depressed patients were sampled by the census method and were compared with 30 normal subjects. Data were collected using the Carver and White’s behavioral inhibition and activation questionnaire (BIS/BAS), Garnefski’s cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire (CERQ) and cognitive failures questionnaire (CFQ). Then, the data were analyzed using chi-square, multivariate analysis of variance and LSD by the SPSS18 software.
Results: The results showed that normal subjects had more sensitivity than depressed and schizophrenic patients in a behavioral activation system and also both depressed and schizophrenic patients had more sensitivity than normal people in a behavioral inhibition system (P < 0.05). However, no significant difference was found between depressed and schizophrenic patients in a behavioral activation system and behavioral inhibition system sensitivity (P > 0.05). In the emotion regulation strategy, normal people used adaptive emotion regulation, and depressed and schizophrenic patients used maladaptive emotion regulation styles. Finally, schizophrenia patients had cognitive failures more than depressed patients, and depressed patients had deficits more than normal people (P < 0.05).
Conclusions: These findings show that brain/behavioral systems, emotion regulation and cognitive failures play an important role in pathology of schizophrenia and depression disorders and can be an important therapeutic target in the treatment and rehabilitation.

 

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Introduction: Disruptive mood dysregulation disorder is a new diagnosis in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) that is characterized by chronic, persistent and severe irritability in children and adolescents. According to the American Psychological Association, these children are at risk of polar depression or anxiety disorders in adulthood. Since emotions play a key role in this disorder, the current research aimed at studying the efficacy of teaching emotion regulation on stress, anxiety, depression and irritability of students with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder.
Methods: The present research was experimental with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. Using purposive sampling, 30 junior high school students with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder were selected through a diagnostic interview, and were then randomly assigned to an experimental and a control group (each group consisted of 15 people). They answered the Stringaris emotional reactivity index and Levinda stress, depression and anxiety scale. Before applying independent variables, the pretests were taken from both groups and then the first group took part in eight 90-minute sessions of group therapy based on Gratz and Gunderson's emotion regulation training. Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Covariance (MONCOVA) method using the SPSS-21 software.
Results: The Findings revealed that such an education decreases depression, stress, and anxiety of the experimental group. The irritability of the students with disruptive mood decreased considerably compared with the pretest and the control group.
Conclusions: Finally, it was concluded that the education of emotion regulation is an acceptable treatment for decreasing emotive derangement and irritability of the students with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. As a result, this treatment could be used in curing this new disorder.

 

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Introduction: Cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are psycho-physiological disorders. In addition to physical problems, psychosocial factors play an important role in its development and intensification. The purpose of this study was to compare the emotion regulation, self-control and defense mechanisms in patients with coronary heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and normal subjects.
Methods: The present study was a post-event causal-comparative study and the statistical population of the study consisted of three groups of cardiovascular patients, diabetic patients and normal people. 40 patients with Coronary Heart Disease, 40 patients with type 2 diabetes, were matched with 40 normal subjects in the variables such as age, gender, education, and marital status. The research instrument was a questionnaire of Defense Styles Questionnaire (DSQ-40), emotional regulation questionnaire (CERQ-10) and self-control questionnaire (SC-13). Data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of variance.
Results: The findings showed that there was a significant difference between the three groups in the variables reappraisal (P <0.001), suppression (P <0.001), self-control (P <0.001), mature defense (P <0.001), neurotic defense (P <0.001), immature defense (P <0.001).
Conclusion: Considering the findings of this research, emotional regulation training, stress management and self-control can be used to promote the Psychiatric Nursing of cardiovascular patients and diabetic patients.
 

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Introduction: Quality of life affects all dimensions of life including personal, educational and professional aspects. Therefore, it is necessary to investigate the factors affecting it. In this study, the quality of life was predicted based on the cognitive emotion regulation strategies and communication skills.
Methods: The present study is descriptive and from among the correlation studies. The population includes female nurses working in the public hospitals of Kerman City in March 2016 – March 2017. 234 persons were selected by clustering sampling method. The research tools were the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ-36), Communication Skills (CS-34) and Quality of Life (SF-12). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression in level of significance 0.05 using the SPPS 20.0.
Results: Results showed that there is a positively significant relationship between the cognitive emotion regulation and communication skills and quality of life (P = 0.001). Stepwise regression results indicated that the cognitive emotion regulation and communication skills predicts 48% and 39% of mental and physical dimensions, respectively, of quality of life (P = 0.001).
Conclusions: In view of the significant role of the cognitive regulation strategies and communication skills in predicting the quality of life, it is suggested to train the emotion regulation and communication skills to the nurses through training workshops and classes, so that their lives enjoy a better quality.

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Introduction: Anger, depression, sadness, despair, malice, strife, fear, anxiety, guilty feelings and incompatibility in mothers with disabled children may be more severe than normal mothers due to experiencing difficulty conditions and expectations beyond their ability. Therefore, managing emotions, reducing negative emotions and increasing the resilience can improve the mental status of mothers. According to this, the aim of this study was to the Effectiveness of emotional regulation training on the negative affect and resilience of mothers with disabled children in the city of Ashkezar.
Methods: This study was a semi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test and with a control group. The statistical population included 267 mothers with disabled children in the Social Welfare Organization of Ashkezar. In order to training the emotional regulation, two groups of 15 people were randomly selected as the experimental group and the control group by purposeful sampling. The data was collected by Positive and Negative Affect Scale (PANAS) and Connor & Davidson Resilience Scale (CD-RISC). The experimental group received eight sessions (2 times 90 minutes in a week) of emotion regulation training and then both groups have completed the post-test. Data analysis was done by the most important descriptive statistics and Analysis of Covariance.
Results: The findings of this study showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of subjects in the experimental and control groups in the post-test. In other words, emotional regulation training reduces the mean of negative affect scores and increases the average scores of resilience in mothers with disabled children (P < 0.001).
Conclusions: Emotional regulation training as an effective teaching method, can reduce negative affect in mothers with disabled children and increase resilience in them. Therefore, it can considered as a desirable and effective model for improving compatibility, happiness and well-being.

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Introduction: In recent years, the eating disorder as a psychosocial disorder has increased dramatically and this disorder has an important role in reduction of physical and mental health. This research aimed to predicting of nursing students’ eating disorder based on alexithymia, coping styles and cognitive emotion regulation.
Methods: This study was a descriptive from correlational type. The research population was the nursing students’ of Islamaic Azad University of Ahvaz branch in 2017-18 years which from them 210 student (29 man and 181 woman) were selected by stratified randomly sampling method. All of them completed the questionnaires of eating disorder, alexithymia, coping styles and cognitive emotion regulation. Data was analyzed with using SPSS-21 and by Pearson correlation and multiple regression with enter model methods.
Results: The findings showed that alexithymia (r=0/173), avoid-focused coping style (r=0/198) and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies (r=0/465) had a significantly positive relationship with nursing students’ eating disorder and problem-focused coping style (r=-0/376) and positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies (r=-0/541) had a significantly negative relationship with nursing students’ eating disorder. Also, the variables of positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and problem-focused coping style significantly could predict 45/5 percent of variance of nursing students’ eating disorder that in this prediction the share of positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies was higher than other variables (p<0/05).
Conclusions: The results indicate the role and importance of the variables of positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and problem-focused coping style in predicting nursing students’ eating disorder. Therefore counselors and therapists should pay attention to the signs of mentioned variables and based on design and implement appropriate programs to decrease the nursing students’ eating disorder.
 

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Introduction: Marital maladjustment is one of the serious problem that serve as the cause of divorce and domestic violence in many families.
The aim of this research was to study the effectiveness of emotion regulation instruction on marital adjustment of couple with marital conflicts.
Methods: The design of this research was experimental with pre-post tests and randomly assignment of subjects. As for severity of clients problems who referring to advocacy offices and to study the effectiveness of emotion regulation of this critical population, the sample included all couples with marital conflicts who searched Khorram Abad advocacy offices during June to October 2017. The subjects instructed by 8 session’s emotion regulation on the basis of Gross model of emotion regulation instruction (1976). Instrument included Spanier Marital adjustment Questionnaire (1976) which completed by subjects before and after intervention. For analyzing the data multiple analysis of covariance statistical method has used.
Results: The results showed that marital satisfaction scores increased in comparison to baseline. It was exactly unfold that the subscales of affective presentation, couple adhesion, couple agreement and couple satisfaction meaningfully increased after the intervention.
Conclusions: emotion regulation instruction can improve marital satisfaction of couple with marital conflicts and it is emphasized on use of this instruction because of its effectiveness on increasing couple marital adjustment and decreasing of marital problem and it is proposed for application of this model by specialists and cooperative work of advocacy offices with counseling centers to preventing divorce that has irreparable outcomes.
 

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Introduction: Generalized anxiety disorder is one of the most common anxiety disorders that cognitive and emotional components have an important role in its developing and persistence. So, the aim of this study was to comparing intolerance of uncertainty, emotion regulation (cognitive reappraisal, suppression), and cognitive avoidance in patients with generalized anxiety disorder and healthy individual.
Method: Present study was an applied research in terms of its purpose and post-event (causal-comparative) in terms of its implementation. A total of 30 patients with GAD were selected by convenience sampling method and were matched with 30 normal subjects by the variables of age and gender. The Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale (IUS), Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ), and Cognitive Avoidance Questionnaires (CAQ) were used to data collection. Data were analyzed by Multivariate Analysis of Variance.
Results: Findings showed there is significant difference between the group of patients with general anxiety disorder and normal people in intolerance of uncertainty (F=91.82, P˂0.0001), cognitive reappraisal (F=51.22, P˂0.0001), suppression (F=80.54, P˂0.0001), and cognitive avoidance (F=58.27, P˂0.0001).
Conclusion: Considering that these components have a significant role in general anxiety disorder, could be more focused on this component on the treatment of this disorder. This finding have potential implications for mental health practitioners who are involved in mental health area that have been addressed.

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Introduction: The earthquake is a natural disaster that has many psychological effects on the survivors and nurses that are associated with them. The purpose of this study was to predict secondary traumatic stress and post-traumatic growth based on cognitive emotion regulation in nurses providing services to earthquake victims in Kermanshah.
Methods: The present study is a descriptive-correlational study. The population includes all nurses providing health care services to earthquake victims in Kermanshah city in 2017. Among them, 181 nurses were selected by available sampling method. To collect the data, the secondary traumatic stress scale (Bried et al. 2004), post traumatic growth (Tedsi and Calhoun 1996) and cognitive emotion regulation (Gennowski et al. 2001) were used. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficient and simultaneous regression and using SPSS software version 25.
Results: The results showed that catastrophizing (β = 0.27, t = 3.11), and other-blame (β = 0.21, t = 2.87) could predict secondary traumatic stress. Also, self-blame (β = 0.16, t = 2.85), positive focus (β = 0.17, t = 2.31), focus on planning (β = 0.23, t = 2.63) the evaluation (β = 0.35, t3 = 3.89) and putting into perspective (β = 0.33, t = 2.13) could predict vicarious post traumatic growth.
Conclusions: Regarding to these results and the importance of nurses in community health, training adaptive strategies for cognitive emotion regulation is necessary for improving the performance and enhancing nursing mental health.
 

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Introduction: Emotion regulation involves all conscious and unconscious strategies that are used to increase, maintain and reduce the emotional, behavioral, and cognitive components of an emotional response. The purpose of the present study was to investigate the effectiveness of teaching discipline-based emotional discipline based on dialectical behavioral therapy on psychological distress and cognitive flexibility in cardiovascular patients.
Methods: The present study is a semi-experimental design with pre-test and post-test with control group. The statistical population of the study consisted of all cardiovascular patients in Kermanshah in 2018. Among them, 30 subjects were selected through available sampling method and randomly assigned to two groups of experimental and control (each group was 15). Intervention of teaching skill Emotion Regulation Based on dialectical behavioral therapy for the experimental group was performed in 8 sessions of 90 minutes, while the control group did not receive any interventions during this period. Depression, Anxiety and Stress Questionnaire (DASS-21) and Cognitive Flexibility Questionnaire (CFI) were used to collect information. To analyze the data, multivariate analysis of covariance was performed using SPSS software version 20. 
Results: Data analysis showed that there is a significant difference between the mean scores of the pre-test and post-test of the experimental and control groups (P<0/05); that is, the discipline-based excitement education based on dialectical behavioral therapy reduces depression, anxiety and stress and increases the cognitive flexibility of the experimental group Compared to the control group.
Conclusion: According to the results, it is possible to use the emotional ordering based on dialectical behavior therapy to improve the psychological distress and cognitive flexibility of heart patients.
 

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Introduction:  Psychological well-being is a predictive factor for preventing or reducing occupational stress one of the important skills that predict and promote psychological well-being is the application of cognitive emotion regulation skills.
The main purpose of this study was to determine the effect of cognitive emotion regulation skills training based on Gross model on the level of psychological well-being of nurses working in psychiatry wards in 2019.
Methods: The study was experimental with two groups of intervention and control and pre-test-post-test and follow-up. For the purpose of this study, 62 nurses working in psychiatry departments of public hospitals in Qazvin in 2019 were selected by convenience sampling method based on inclusion criteria and sample size calculations. Simple randomized substitution method was used in 31 patients in the intervention group and 31 in the control group. Findings were collected on the basis of demographic information questionnaire before the intervention and 54-item Reef psychological well-being questionnaire in one pre-test and two post-test (immediately and then three months after the intervention of the intervention group). The intervention group received cognitive emotion regulation training based on Gross Model during 8 sessions of one hour per week. Repeat Measure ANOVA test was used to analyze the data. The results were analyzed by SPSS 24 software.
Results: The findings showed that demographic variables were similar between the intervention and control groups. The mean score of psychological well-being before the intervention in the intervention group was 218.86 and in the control group was 217.87 (P = 0.87), which Immediately after the intervention and then three months thereafter in the intervention group, the change in the intervention group was 249.51 and 244.54, respectively, and in the control group, it was 216/38 and 217, respectively (P = 0.00). Analysis of variance with repeated measures with P = 0.00 for the intervention group and P = 0.42 for the control group showed that the changes in the psychological well-being of the intervention group were due to educational intervention.
Conclusion: The results of this study showed that training of cognitive emotion regulation skills improved the psychological well-being of nurses in psychiatric wards, while before and after the intervention in the control group there was no change. Include in-service training program for nurses.
 

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Introduction: Over the past few decades, there has been a dramatic increase in clinical research with the aim of investigating the underlying mechanisms of type 2 diabetic retinopathy disorder. The aim of this study was to compare the excitement of patients with type 2 diabetic retinopathy and normal counterparts in Tabriz.
Methods: This study was a comparative study. The statistical population of this study was all patients with type 2 diabetes retinopathy in Tabriz in 2018. In this study, 80 patients with type 2 and 80 normal diabetic retinopathy were selected randomly and responded to the emotion regulation questionnaire. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics and multivariate analysis of variance using SPSS software version 21.
Results: Data analysis showed that there was a significant difference between the scores of type 2 diabetic retinopathy and normal people in self-induction, other blame, focus on thought, disaster, negligence, positive re-focus, positive reappraisal, acceptance and There is a focus on planning (P <0/01).
Conclusion: According to the results of this study, it can be concluded that patients with type 2 diabetes retinopathy have more emotional deficits than their normal counterparts.
 

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Introduction: Students, especially nurses, have many problems in social adjustment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and perceived social support in predicting nurses' social adjustment.
Methods: This research is a descriptive correlation study. 122 nursing students studying in Islamic Azad University of Tehran Medical Sciences during the academic year of 1389-99 were selected by convenience sampling method and responded to social adjustment questionnaires, short form of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire and Multidimensional Perceived Social Support Scale. They gave. Data were analyzed using stepwise multiple linear regression and SPSS-24 statistical software.
Results: The results showed that among the predictor variables included in the regression model, family support and adaptive emotion regulation strategies had a significant role in predicting nurses 'social adjustment and these two variables could explain 0.49 of the variance of nurses' social adjustment variable.
Conclusion: Understanding the factors affecting nurses' social adjustment enables them to predict and plan appropriately to help them with their mental health and to prevent the spread of psychosocial disorders. According to the results of this study, knowing the essential role of family support and emotion regulation skills in social adjustment, we can consider these variables in educational programs and adopt appropriate strategies to promote them. Improve nurses' social adjustment in work and family environments and situations.

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Introduction: Diabetes is one of the main causes of death in the world; so that every day the number of patients with it is increasing and one of the risk groups in Corona disease are people with diabetes. From anxiety related factors can be noted to cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety, therefore present research aimed to predicting Corona anxiety based on cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety in diabetic patients. Methods: This study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was diabetic patients of Ahvaz city in 2020 year which from them 400 people selected by purposive sampling method. In this research to collected data used from the tools of Corona anxiety, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model in SPSS-19 software. Results: The findings showed that positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and health hardiness had a negative and significant relationship with Corona anxiety in diabetic patients and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and death anxiety had a positive and significant relationship with their Corona anxiety. Also, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, health hardiness and death anxiety could explain 38/8 percent of Corona anxiety changes in diabetic patients, which the share of death anxiety was higher than other variables (P<0/01). Conclusions: Regarded to the results, for reduce Corona anxiety of diabetic patients can designed programs to increase their positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and health hardiness and decrease their negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and death anxiety and implemented through electronic and virtual workshop.

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Introduction: Obesity causes physical, psychological and even emotional problems and these conditions can change body mass index, craving and even emotion regulation, so the aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of attachment-based intervention in body mass index, emotion regulation and food-cravings obese adolescent girls.
Method: The research method was quasi-experimental with pre-test and post-test design with a control group and a two-month follow-up. The statistical population of this study was all female students with obesity and referring to endocrinology and obesity centers in Sari in 2019. From the target population, 24 subjects were selected by available sampling method and based on inclusion and exclusion criteria and were randomly assigned to the experimental and control groups according to the lottery. The research instruments included Body Mass Index (BMI), emotion regulation questionnaire of Gratz and Roemer (2004) and Food-Cravings questionnaire of Cepeda-Benito et al. (2000). The experimental group underwent attachment-based treatment in 10 sessions of 90 minutes for two months. From both experimental and control groups before the intervention; Pre-test, termination of intervention; Post-test and again two months after the intervention; Follow-up received. The results were analyzed using repeated measures analysis of variance and chi-square with SPSS 18 software.
Results: The result of the mean index in the body mass index in the pre-test was 32.52, and the post-test was 30.94. , Follow-up is 30.11, inthe experimental group in food cravings in the pre-test were 119.91, the post-test was 103.41, and the follow-up was 102.91. In emotion regulation, the pre-test is 126.32, the post-test is 111.25, and the follow-up is 111.45. The results showed that Attachment-Based Intervention in variables; body mass index (p<0.001, F=27.344), craving food (p< 0.001, F=54.174) and regulating emotion (p< 0.001, F=69.668) has a significant effect. In general, there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test of the experimental group in the intervention process according to the control group (P <0.01). Also, the follow-up study showed the stability of the intervention.
Conclusion: The results of this study emphasize the importance of food attachment in obese people, which can provide practical implications for therapists to reduce food craving, emotion regulation and improve body mass in obese female adolescents.

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Introduction: Nurses as a powerful arm of the health care system play an important role in the evolution and progress of care, treatment, improvement, and promotion of the system. This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of self-compassion-based therapy on cognitive emotion regulation strategies and anxiety sensitivity in female nurses.
Methods: In a quasi-experimental design, with pre-test-post-test with a control group, 30 female nurses working in the psychiatric ward working in hospitals (Imam Hossein (AS) and Bouali Hospital) in Tehran in 2019 to Targeted forms were selected and randomly assigned to two equal groups of 15 individuals. The experimental group then underwent compassion-focused treatment for 8 sessions and the control group did not receive any intervention. Participants completed the Anxiety Sensitivity Questionnaire and the Emotion Regulation Strategies Questionnaire in three baseline stages, after a two-month test and follow-up. Data were analyzed using univariate one-way analysis of variance and repeated measures with SPSS21 software.
Results: The results of the analysis showed that the scores of the experimental group decreased compared to the control group in the anxiety sensitivity variable (the greatest decrease in the fear component of physical anxiety). There was also a significant difference in improving emotional regulation the follow-up stage of this difference is maintained (P <0.01).
Conclusion:It can be concluded that self-compassionate therapy due to its high efficiency, especially when it is held in groups, cheapness, and acceptance by nurses is an effective strategy to help people exposed to anxiety sensitivity and improved emotion regulation strategies.