Relationship between Mental Rumination, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, Physical-Social Anxiety and Sleep Disturbance in People with Depression Safarabad Mohsen Ghasemi1,2, Safarzadeh Sahar2,* 1Department of Psychology, Khuzestan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran 2Department of Psychology, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran *Corresponding author: Sahar Safarzadeh, Email: Safarzadeh1152@yahoo.com
Online published on 18 July, 2017. Abstract The aim of this research is to study the relationship between mental rumination, cognitive emotion regulation, and social-physical anxiety and sleep disturbance in people with depression in Ahvaz city in 2016. The target population has included all the people with depressive disorder in Ahvaz city, a sample of 150 patients with depression who have referred to psychiatric clinic of Golestan hospital of Ahwaz city has been selected. The research design is correlational and sampling method is purpose covariance sampling. In order to collect the data, the mental rumination scale of Nolen Hoeksema, Marow (1991), cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire of Garnefski (2001), physical-social anxiety of Hart, Larry and Rjsky (1989), and Kerningen sleep questionnaire (1990) have been used. The analysis of the data by using Pearson correlation has shown that at the level of 0.05 there is a significant relationship between mental rumination, cognitive emotion regulation, physical-social anxiety and sleep disturbance in people with depression. Also according to the regression analysis it has been shown that among the predictive variables, the variable of physical-social anxiety and mental rumination are respectively better predictors for the sleep disturbance criterion variable. Top Keywords mental rumination, physical-social anxiety, cognitive emotion regulation, sleep disturbance, depression. Top |