The role of psychological resilience, perceived social support, and cognitive emotion regulation in explaining obsessive beliefs during the COVID-19 pandemic process

The main purpose of this study is to examine the role of psychological resilience, perceived social support, and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in explaining the obsessive beliefs of individuals during the Covid-19 pandemic process. Besides, this study aims to examine the relationship between obsessive beliefs and demographic characteristics obtained through Personal Information Form. The working group of the study consists of a total of 489 individuals (328 women, 161 men) in the age group of 18-65. Informed Consent Form, The Personal Information Form, Short Resilience Scale, The Multidimensional Scale of Perceived Social Support, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Scale, and Obsessive Beliefs Scale were applied to the participants, respectively. Independent Sample T-test, one-way ANOVA, Correlation Analysis, and multiple linear regression analysis were utilised to analyse the data obtained in the research. In accordance with the findings obtained from the study, while there was no significant difference between perceived social support and obsessive beliefs; self-blame and catastrophizing, which are one of the psychological resilience and cognitive emotion regulation strategies, predict both the sub-dimensions including responsibility/threat expectation, perfectionism/certainty, and importance/control of thoughts. Additionally, focus on thought/rumination strategy predicts both responsibility/threat expectation and perfectionism/certainty sub-dimensions; blaming others strategy predicts the sub-dimensions including both responsibility/threat expectation and importance/control of thoughts. There was no significant difference in obsessive beliefs their sub-dimensions according to the age and gender of the participants. While there was a difference in responsibility/threat expectation sub-dimension according to the level of income, there was also a difference in both the sub-dimensions including responsibility/threat expectation and importance/control of thoughts according to the level of education. It was determined that there was no significant difference in obsessive beliefs according to the diagnosis of Covid-19. The results obtained from the current study were discussed within the framework of the literature.