comparing cognitive–emotional flexibility and death anxiety in people with and without traumatic experience

The present study aimed to compare the cognitive-emotional flexibility and death anxiety in individuals with and without traumatic experience. it is a causal-comparative study. the population of this research, including all individuals with traumatic experience who had referred to psychiatric clinics and ardabil isar psychiatric hospital during first half of year 2020, were selected by purposeful sampling. it included 20 individuals as well as another group of 20 as a control group who were selected by convenient sampling. acceptance and practice questionnaire, emotional flexibility questionnaire and templar death anxiety scale were employed in order to collect data and the obtained data were analyzed through multivariate analysis of variance using spss software, version 22. the results demonstrated that mean scores of cognitive–emotional flexibility in individuals with traumatic experience were lower than the control group while the mean scores of death anxiety of people with traumatic experience were higher than them (p < .01). the results demonstrated the clearance of cognitive–emotional flexibility and death anxiety in individuals with traumatic experience.