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

The present study was aimed to compare the cognitive-emotional flexibility and death anxiety in individuals with and without traumatic experience. Employed methodology was causal-comparative method. Statistical 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, was selected by purposeful sampling; and it included 20 individuals as well as another group of 20 ones as a control group who were selected by convenient method. Acceptance and Practice Questionnaire, Emotional Flexibility Questionnaire and Templar Death Anxiety Scale were employed in order to collecting data obtained data was analyzed through multivariate analysis of variance test by use of software SPSS 22. Obtained results demonstrated that mean scores of cognitive – emotional flexibility in individuals with traumatic experience were lower than control group while the mean scores of death anxiety of people with traumatic experience were higher than them (p <0.01). The results demonstrated the clearance of cognitive – emotional flexibility and death anxiety in individuals with traumatic experience.