Comparing Emotion Cognitive Regulation, Alexithymia and Neuropsychological Skills among Teenagers withType-1 Diabetes and Healthy Ones

Background: The emergence of chronic physiologic diseases in the peoplecauses their mental health damage. Therefore, the present study aimed tocompare emotion cognitive regulation, alexithymia and neuropsychologicalskills among teenagers with type-1 diabetes and healthy ones.Methods: This was a causal-comparative method. The statistical populationincluded teenagers with type-1 diabetes and healthy ones in the city of Rashtin 2016. The sample size was 100 teenagers with type-1 diabetes and 100healthy ones who were selected through convenient sampling method. Theapplied questionnaires included alexithymia questionnaire, emotion cognitiveregulation and neuropsychological skills questionnaire. After collectingquestionnaires and extracting raw data, the data analysis was done throughtwo-group independent sample t-test.Results: The results of data analysis showed that there is a significantdifference between emotion cognitive regulation, alexithymia andneuropsychological skills among students with type-2 diabetes and healthyones (p < 0.0001) in a way that the teenagers with type-1 diabetes have loweremotion cognitive regulation and neuropsychological skills and higheralexithymia than healthy ones.Conclusion: According to the findings, teenagers with type-1 diabetes havelower emotion cognitive regulation and neuropsychological skills and higheralexithymia due to treatment and psychological involvement in their sickness;so, there needs to use treatments related to these components such asmindfulness and acceptance and commitment treatment to improve them.

Keywords:

Emotion Cognitive Regulation , Neuropsychological Skills , Alexithymia , Type-1 Diabetes