Emotional Regulation Strategies and their Relation to Post-Traumatic Growth in a Sample of Women with Recurrent Miscarriage

The present study aims to explore the relation between emotional regulation strategies and post-traumatic growth. It applied the scale of emotional regulation strategies by Garnefski et al. (2002) translated by the researcher and post-traumatic growth scale developed by the researcher to a sample of (65) women with recurrent miscarriages. The results showed a positive relation between strategies (acceptance, positive refocusing, putting into perspective, positive reappraisal, and planning) and post-traumatic growth, a negative relation between self-blame and catastrophizing and post-traumatic growth, and no relation between rumination and other-blame and post-traumatic growth. There were differences in positive emotional regulation strategies (acceptance, putting into perspective, positive reappraisal, and planning) and post-traumatic growth according to residence in favor of the urban inhabitants. Regarding having children, the results showed differences in the (putting into perspective, positive reappraisal, and planning) strategies and post-traumatic growth in favor of families with children. Concerning the economic level, there were differences in putting into perspective and positive reappraisal and post-traumatic growth in favor of high income. Regarding age, there were differences in (acceptance, putting into perspective, positive reappraisal, and planning) and post-traumatic growth in favor of the younger females. Differences in the number of recurrent miscarriages revealed differences in catastrophizing and post-traumatic growth in favor of three times. Moreover, positive emotional regulation strategies (planning, acceptance, positive refocusing, and positive reappraisal) helped predict post-traumatic growth.