Structural Patterns of Personality Characteristics and Cognitive Emotional Regulation with Distress Tolerance in Mothers with a Child with Cancer: Mediating Role of Coping Strategies

Introduction: Emotion regulation models consider a special role for personality, emotional, cognitive and coping factors in distress tolerance. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of personality traits and cognitive emotion regulation in predicting distress tolerance: The mediating Role of coping strategies. Methods: The method of this research was descriptive- correlational and was performed on 382 mothers of children with cancer in Mahak hospital who were selected by purposeful sampling. Data gathering instruments were Distress Tolerance Scale, NEO 5-Factor Personality Questionnaire, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Lazarus and Folkman Coping Strategies Questionnaire. Data were analyzed by person's correlation coefficient and path analysis statistical method by SPSS21 and LISREL.8.7. Results: the result of path analysis indicate that model fit with collected data and Personality traits and cognitive emotion regulation are directly and indirectly related to distress tolerance. Emotion- focus coping strategies also directly affect distress tolerance   (AGFI=0.95, RMSEA=0.053, NFI=0.98). Conclusion: Combining some personality traits, cognitive emotion regulation, and emotion-focused coping strategies can reduce some people's distress tolerance.