Comparison of cognitive strategies for emotion regulation, impulsivity and suicidal ideation in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar people disorder and normal people

Niloofar Beheshti; Mahmoud Najafi

doi:10.18502/qjcr.v21i83.11090

Niloofar Beheshti M A in Psychology, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology & Education sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.
Mahmoud Najafi Ph.D. in Psychology, Associate Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Faculty of Psychology & Education sciences, Semnan University, Semnan, Iran.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.18502/qjcr.v21i83.11090

Keywords: Obsessive-compulsive disorder, bipolar disorder, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, impulsivity, suicidal thoughts

Abstract

Aim: The aim was to compare cognitive strategies for emotion regulation, impulsivity, and suicidal ideation in patients with obsessive-compulsive, bipolar disorder and normal individuals.

Methods: This was a causal-comparative study. The statistical population included people who were diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorder in city of Semnan, Iran in the year 1400. According to the opinion of a psychiatrist, as well as normal people who were not diagnosed with a disorder based on self-report and using a checklist of symptoms of mental disorders. Fifty obsessive-compulsive patients and 50 bipolar patients, as well as 50 normal individuals were selected through available sampling. Granfsky Emotion Cognitive Regulation Questionnaire, Barthes Impulsivity, and Beck Suicidal Thought were administered. Multivariate analysis of variance was used to analyze the data.

Findings: Cognitive regulation of emotion, impulsivity and suicidal ideation are significantly different in the three groups. The mean scores of the patient group were higher than the normal group in the negative components of emotion regulation, impulsivity and suicidal ideation (p<0.05). In the positive of emotion regulation, the mean scores of the bipolar group were higher than the obsession (p<0.05). In negative regulating emotion, the mean scores of obsessive-compulsive patients were higher than those of bipolar disorder (p<0.05). Also, the mean scores of obsessive-compulsive group was higher than bipolar in cognitive impulsivity (p<0.05 ); but there was no difference between the obsessive-compulsive and bipolar groups in motor components and lack of planning (p>0.05).

Conclusion: Holding educational workshops to minimize the damage caused by failure in emotion regulation, impulsivity, and suicidal thoughts in obsessive-compulsive and bipolar disorder sufferers, designing support programs such as training impulse management skills, using adaptive emotion regulation strategies, planning skills and decision-making in the general population as well as obsessive-compulsive and bipolar patients, as well as the appropriate treatment plan to prevent the exacerbation or recurrence of patients' symptoms can be effective.