The relationship between cognitive flexibility and social anxiety with perceived anxiety control in people with eating disorder symptoms: The mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation
International Journal of Applied Behavioral Sciences,
Vol. 11 No. 3 (2024),
19 September 2024
,
Page 37-44
https://doi.org/10.22037/ijabs.v11i3.46336
Abstract
Background and Aim:eating disorder is one public health problem with increasing prevalence during the last few decades. Therefore, the present study was aimed to investigate the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and social anxiety and the perceived anxiety control in people with eating disorder symptoms.Materials and Methods:The method of the present research was of descreaptive-structural equations. The statistical population of the research was included all the people who referred to health and counseling centers in Tehran, among them 384 people with symptoms of eating disorder (based on a semi-structured clinical interview based on DSM5 criteria) selected through purposive sampling. The tools used in the research included questionnaires of social anxiety, cognitive flexibility, perceived anxiety control and cognitive emotion regulation. Pearson correlation method, structural modeling and partial least square algorithm (PLS) were used for data analysis.Results:The results indicated the fitness of the research model. The findings showed that cognitive flexibility has a direct effect on social anxiety and perceived anxiety control (p<0.001). Also, cognitive flexibility has an indirect effect on social anxiety and perceived anxiety control through cognitive emotion regulation (p<0.001).Conclusion:According to the findings of the present study, cognitive flexibility and cognitive emotion regulation play a key role in predicting social anxiety and the perception of anxiety control, and counseling and psychotherapy centers there is need for pay more attention to these variables in people with symptoms of eating disorder.
- cognitive flexibility
- cognitive regulation
- social anxiety
- perception of anxiety control
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