TY - JOUR T1 - Comparison of Anxiety, Depression and Stress and Emotional Self-Regulation in Normal and Divorced Women AU - Pirmoradi, Mohammad Reza AU - Poya, Fatemeh Sadeghi AU - Rad, Mana Tabatabaee AU - Veisy, Fathemeh AU - Gheitarani, Bahram AU - Davoodi, Reza AU - Ghahari, Shahrbanoo JO - International Journal of Tropical Medicine VL - 11 IS - 5 SP - 159 EP - 164 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-3319 DO - ijtmed.2016.159.164 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijtmed.2016.159.164 KW - Depression KW -anxiety KW -stress KW -emotion-regulation KW -divorced women AB - Because of stressful conditions, divorced women are vulnerable of psychiatric problems. The main purpose of this study is to compare anxiety, depression, stress and emotion self-regulation in divorced and normal women. The present study is a kind of analytical-comparative research and statistical population consists of all divorced women of Tehran referred to several counseling centers by 2015. From these women, 42 women were volunteered to participate in the study. Inclusion criterion was having divorce history for at least 2 years. The individuals were compared to 38 married women with no history of divorce in terms of anxiety, depression and stress and emotion self-regulation. All samples fulfilled depression, anxiety, stress and emotion regulation questionnaires. To compare depression, anxiety and emotion self-regulation between two groups of normal and divorced women, parametric independent t-test and Mann-Whitney nonparametric test has been applied. The data analyzed by SPSS22. Obtained results showed that there is significant difference between normal and divorced women in terms of emotion self-regulation (p = 0.005). However, no significant difference was observed in scores of depression, anxiety and stress in two groups. Emotion dysregulation is a severe problem in divorced women. ER -