خلاصة:
Objectives: The associations between emotional skills encompassed in emotion regulation
model and psychopathology were examined by investigating its ability to modify the emotionmediated
association between other emotion regulation skills and psychopathology.
Methods: A total of 465 students were selected using proposal sampling method. Data
were collected using Emotion Regulation Skill Questionnaire (ERSQ) and Brief Symptom
Inventory (BSI). Data were analyzed using bootstrapping-enhanced mediation analysis that
considered the ability to modify emotions as a mediator, psychopathology as dependent, and
other emotional skill as independent and Pearson’s correlation coefficient.
Results: A significant negative correlation was established between emotional skills and
psychopathology in a range from 0.13 (bodily perception of sensations) to 0.31 (modification)
(ρ=-0.31, P<0.01). The total effect for the variables of clarity, understanding, acceptance and
tolerance, confrontation, self-support, attention, and sensation was significant at P<0.05,
thereby rendering the mediation analysis plausible. The indirect effect of all variables was
also significant. Therefore, all the variables have partial mediating effects. The direct effect
of the variable of attention, sensation, and understanding on the psychological disturbances
was not significant (P>0.05), and modification between these three skills and psychopathology
exerted a complete mediating effect. The direct impact of emotional clarity, acceptance and
tolerance, confrontation, and self-support was significant. Thus, emotion modification between
the skills of emotional clarity, acceptance and tolerance, confrontation, and self-support with
psychological disturbance had partial mediating effects.
Discussion: The ability to modify emotions is the pathway through which other emotional
skills might exert their influence on the mental health.
ملخص الجهاز:
The total effect for the variables of clarity, understanding, acceptance and tolerance, confrontation, self-support, attention, and sensation was significant at P<0.
Thus, emotion modification between the skills of emotional clarity, acceptance and tolerance, confrontation, and self-support with psychological disturbance had partial mediating effects.
I ranian Rehabilitation Journal The ACE-based adaptive emotion regulation is consid- ered as a situation-dependent interaction between a set of skills, including the ability to (a) be consciously aware of emotions, (b) identify and label emotions, (c) identify what causes and maintains the emotions, (d) modify the emotions in an adaptive manner, (e) accept and toler- ate emotions, (f) approach and confront with situations triggering negative emotions, and (g) provide effective self-support in distressing situations [15].
Nevertheless, the results of a study on inpatient clini- cal samples demonstrated that only the ability to modify, ac- cept, and tolerate negative emotions play a significant role in identifying patients’ conditions (as compared to a control group selected from the society), predicting the severity of psychopathological symptoms at the pre-treatment stage, as well as, forecasting the changes in the symptoms [17].
I ranian Rehabilitation Journal June 2018, Volume 16, Number 2 instance, studies about differences in regulating emo- tions have focused on cultural differences in the use of emotion suppression strategy.
117 June 2018, Volume 16, Number 2 I ranian Rehabilitation Journal Ability to modify emotions Other emotions regulation skills Psychopathological symptom Figure 1.
According to the overall results of the present study, modification, emotional clarity, acceptance and tolerance, confronta- tion, and self-support are vital for the mental health.