investigating the activity of brain-behavioral systems and resilience through the mediating role of metacognitive beliefs in patients with tension headaches

Introduction: this study aimed to investigate the relationship between the activity of behavioral brain systems and resilience with emphasis on the mediating role of metacognitive beliefs. materials and methods: the population of this correlational study consist the patients with tension-type headaches who referred to neurology clinics and clinical psychologists in mashhad city during 2018-2019. amongst them 300 cases were selected by convenient sampling method. participants were assessed through research assessment tools including jackson's five-factor questionnaire, metacognition questionnaire (mcq-30) and connor and davidson resilience questionnaire. the data analyzed by the descriptive statistics, pearson correlation method, path analysis, amos and spss version 22. results: the findings showed that behavioral brain systems with all three subscales of behavioral inhibition, behavioral activation and fffs have a direct effect on resilience. (p<0.05), and the two components of the behavioral activation system (bas) and behavioral inhibition (bis) have no direct effect on metacognitive beliefs as a mediating variable, only the fffs component has a direct negative effect on metacognitive beliefs (p<0.05). conclusion: according to the results of the present study, there is a positive and significant relationship between behavioral inhibition system and tension headache. also, brain -behavioral system and resilience through mediating role of cognitive beliefs can impact on patients with tension headaches.