The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Cognitive DistortionStrategies in Relation to Attachment Styles and Dissociative Experiences

Introduction: in dissociative experience, the coherent and perfectly coordinated quality of humancognition becomes highly incoherent. this study aims at investigating the mediating role of cognitiveemotion regulation and cognitive distortion strategies between attachment styles and dissociativeexperiences among students.materials and methods: this study was descriptive and used a correlation design. the statisticalpopulation consisted of all students of islamic azad university of marvdasht. using conveniencesampling, 329 students (187 girls and 142 boys) were selected as the sample of the study. foraccomplishing the research, the dissociative experiences (bernstein and putnam, 1986), attachmentstyles (bartolomio and horowit, 1991), cognitive distortion (hammachi and ozturk, 2004), andemotion regulation (garnefski, kraaij, spinhoven, 2001) questionnaires, were used.results: the results showed that the direct effect of safe style, isolation avoidance, and fearful styleon dissociative experiences was equal to -0.15, 0.17, 0.21 which was significant (p < 0.01). the directeffect of preoccupied style was not significant. the indirect effect of safe and fearful style ondissociative experiences were equal to -0.12 and 0.33 which was significant (p < 0.01 and p < 0.05,respectively). the indirect effect of avoidance/detachment style and preoccupation style was notsignificant. the fitness of the model was 0.02, which was at the desired level.conclusion: considering the negative effect of secure style and the positive effect of insecure styleon dissociative experiences, the importance of secure style and insecure style should be given moreattention in treatment.