Background and Aim: Paying attention to pregnant women in this stressful period is an important factor in mental and emotional health of women and their children. More mental and emotional changes are observed in the first pregnancy and it's a difficult experience for most women. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of cognitive emotion regulation and mindfulness in women in the first pregnancy.

Material and Method: In this descriptive correlation study 122 pregnant women with their first experience, who were living in Qom city were chosen by random cluster sampling. That way, three centers of obstetric sonography were selected randomly from from those in Qom. For collecting data, meta-cognition questionnaire, cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire and five-sided mindfulness questionnaires were used. The data were analyzed with Pearson correlation and regression analysis by using software spss 20.

Results: The findings showed that there is a significant positive correlation between metacognitive beliefs and cognitive emotion regulation and mindfulness of women in the first pregnancy. In addition, uncontrollability components, the need for control of thoughts and cognitive self-awareness play a significant role in predicting changes in cognitive emotion regulation and cognitive reliability and cognitive self-awareness components in the mindfulness of women in the first pregnancy.
Conclusion: Metacognitive beliefs play an important and influential role in determining the emotions and mindfulness of women in the first pregnancy, and can help to reduce the psychological problems during pregnancy by carefully studying these variables in pregnant women.

Keywords: Metacognitive Beliefs, Cognitive Emotion Regulation, Mindfulness, Pregnancy

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