Compilation and Assessment of a Model for the Correlations between Emotional Self-regulation and Social Problem-solving with Disease Perception and Resilient Mediation in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis in Tabriz, Iran

Abstract

Objective: The present study aimed to assess the correlations between emotional self-regulation and problem-solving with disease perception through resilient mediation in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) in Tabriz, Iran. Methodology: This study was carried out as structural equations on 250 MS patients in Tabriz in 2018, who completed emotional self-regulation, problem-solving, disease perception, and resilience questionnaires. LISREL software and structural equations were used to calculate the fitting share. Results: Direct, significant correlations were observed between emotional self-regulation and disease perception, emotional self-regulation and resilience, and disease perception and resilience, so that positive emotional self-regulation could predict disease perception. The direct correlations of positive and negative orientation with disease perception, components of logical problem-solving, impulsive style, and disease perception, as well as resilience and disease perception were also considered significant. However, the correlation of direct positive orientation with resilience, logical problem-solving, and disease and negative orientation with resilience, impulsive style, and disease perception, as well as the causal correlations of the avoidance style with disease perception and resilience were not significant. Conclusion: Emotional self-regulation and resilient mediation play a key role in the disease perception of MS patients, and the obtained model could be considered as a therapeutic protocol.

Keywords

• emotional self-regulation
• problem-solving
• disease perception
• resilience
• multiple sclerosis