Perceived stress, psychological resilience and cognitive emotion regulation strategies in health professionals as predictors of state and trait anxiety

The aim of this study was to investigate the prediction of perceived stress, psychological resilience and cognitive emotion regulation strategies on state-trait anxiety. The ages of the participants are between"21-60", there are 279 participant183 women (%65.6), 96 men (%34.4) totally. In the scope of the research, The Perceived Stress Scale, The ShortPsychological Resilience Scale, The Cognitive Emotion Regulation Scale, the State-Trait Anxiety Scale were used for the research. In addition, the participants filled out the Demographic Information Form, "Independent Sampling T-Test ", "One-way ANOVA", " Multiple Regression Analysis " and "Correlation Analysis " were used for the analysis of the data obtained. Results of the analysis revealed that perceived stress and trait anxiety levels for women are higher than men and psychological resilience level for men is higher than women. While the between of the putting into perspective is that one of the cognitive emotion regulation strategies and trait and state anxiety scores were not statistically significant, the between of the other strategies and trait and state anxiety scores were statistically significant. It has been observed that stres, psychological resilience and cognitive emotion regulation strategies predict 35.6% of state anxiety whereas trait anxiety predicts 63.1% of them.