In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iranian Association of Social Psychology

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Objective: The coronavirus epidemic have had different effects on psychological aspects of individuals, especially on patients with corona disease. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and health anxiety with cognitive emotion regulation strategies in outpatient with Corona disease. Method: For this purpose, a sample of 400 adult men and women outpatients over than 20 years old evaluated by health anxiety questionnaire (Salkovskis, 2002), intolerance of uncertainty (Freeston, 1994), and The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Garnefski & Kraaij, 2001) via social network.  To analyze the data, Pearson correlation and path analysis were used. Results: The results showed health anxiety and intolerance of uncertainty were negatively correlated with adaptive, and positively with non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Also, intolerance to uncertainty was indirectly correlated with non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies through mediating of health anxiety. Conclusion: These results will have practical implications to design psychological interventions to maintain and promote the mental health of the patients with corona disease.

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