Evaluation of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies and Perfectionism in Traitor and Normal Women

The aim of this research was evaluation of cognitive emotion regulation strategies and perfectionism in traitor and normal women. In a causal-comparative design, 80 married women (40 traitor people and 40 normal people) with age range from 20 to 50 years were selected through available non-probability sampling and completed the short form of cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire and multidimensional perfectionism scale. Data were analyzed by using multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA). Results showed that traitor women than normal women got higher scores in perfectionism (Self-Oreinted, Other-Oreinted and Socilly Prescribed) and cognitive emotion regulation strategies of catastrophizing and other-blame, but they showed significantly lower mean in positive refocusing strategie. in the other cognitive emotion regulation strategies there was no significant difference between two groups. Based on the results of this study can be said that frequent use of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and low use of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies can actuate the extreme perfectionism people towards mariage infidelity.