Relationship of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Meaning in Life With Health Anxiety Among Emergency Nurses

Abstract

The current study aimed to investigate the relationship of cognitive emotion regulation and meaning in life with health anxiety in nurses working in emergency department. Materials and Methods: It was a descriptive research in the form of correlation and prediction. The sample included 100 emergency nurses in Sari City, Iran selected by randomized method of sampling. The participants completed items of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), the Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ) and health anxiety questionnaire. The research data were analyzed by descriptive statistics indices, Pearson correlation analysis, Partition coefficient, and multivariate regression, using SPSS. Results: The results suggested a significant relationship between cognitive emotion regulation and health anxiety, especially in the subscale of rumination in terms of negative cognitive emotion regulation. Also, there was a significant relationship between meaning in life and health anxiety. Conclusion: Generally, findings of this research can be useful in future studies regarding the effect of meaning in life and cognitive emotion regulation on health anxiety.

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Effects of Content Features and Lingual Form of Government Information Release on the Regulation of Public Negative Emotions During COVID-19 Epidemic in Wuhan

“…It is well known that emergencies and their associated social emotions, especially the interweaving and collision of various negative emotions, have a great effect on public health [1,2]. During emergencies, positive psychological suggestion will make positive emotions generate, so as to avoid the influence caused by negative emotion, which is of a great help in controlling disease and restoring healthy life [3,4].…”

COVID‐19 pandemic and health anxiety among nurses of intensive care units

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“…Beside these, the nurses working in ICUs are at higher risk of being infected with COVID-19 due to a more special working environment and working with more severely ill patients who are under mechanical ventilation and require conducting dangerous and invasive procedures such as suctioning airways secretions and oral cavity, that increase the risk of transmission of COVID-19. (Millar 2020;Pappa, Ntella et al 2020;Shanafelt, Ripp et al 2020).Health anxiety is one of the important factors contributing to the higher levels of stress in ICU nurses (Jamshidian, Kiani et al 2018). Health anxiety is a cognitive disorder caused by misconceptions about disease symptoms and physical manifestations resulting from a person's beliefs about his/her illness or health (Fergus, Kelley et al 2016;Jamshidian, Kiani et al 2018).…”

“…(Millar 2020;Pappa, Ntella et al 2020;Shanafelt, Ripp et al 2020).Health anxiety is one of the important factors contributing to the higher levels of stress in ICU nurses (Jamshidian, Kiani et al 2018). Health anxiety is a cognitive disorder caused by misconceptions about disease symptoms and physical manifestations resulting from a person's beliefs about his/her illness or health (Fergus, Kelley et al 2016;Jamshidian, Kiani et al 2018).…”