Comparison of perceived social support and the difficulty of emotional regulation in elderly smokers and non-smokers

Introduction: Since the lack of social protection and the lack of monitoring of emotions can make the elderly a vulnerable part of the society, the present study aims to compare perceived social support and the difficulty of cognitive management of excitement among smokers and non-nursing elderly people. Smoker was done.  Methods: This was a descriptive, causal-comparative type. The population of the study consisted of all non-resident elderly people in Kermanshah city in 1396. Available for sampling, 48 were smokers and 48 were non-smokers. Data collection tools include the Multidimensional Social Perception Scale of Zimm et al. (1988) & difficulty of emotional regulation by Graz and Roemer (2004) Questionnaire. For data analysis, multivariate analysis of variance analysis using SPSS_22 software was used. Results: The results of the research showed that there is a significant difference between the elderly smoker and non-smoker in terms of benefiting from various social support (family, friends and other people) as well as how cognitive emotion is regulated, that is, Social status was lower in smoker less than the non-smoker group, while the amount of difficulty in cognitive-emotional regulation was significantly higher in smokers than non-smokers (P <0.001). Conclusion: So, it can be said that there is a lack of perceived social support and difficulty in cognitive regulation of excitement in consumption or smoking among elderly people.