The mediating role of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between spiritual well-being and resilience in veterans

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

2 Master's student in general psychology, University of Kashan, Kashan, Iran

3 Master's student in clinical psychology, Yasouj Azad University, Yasouj, Iran

10.30471/psy.2023.9202.2095

Abstract

Veterans suffer many physical and mental injuries in their lives, therefore, it is important to evaluate their resilience against adversity, the aim of the research was to explain the mediating role of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in relation to spiritual well-being and resilience in veterans of Shahreza city .In terms of purpose, application and research design, the research was correlation of structural equation modeling type, the statistical population of veterans of Shahreza city included 500 people, among them 220 people were selected based on Morgan and Krejci’s table by random sampling and according to The drop in the sample was caused by not answering the questions of the questionnaire, finally 200 people were selected as a sample. The research instrument included spiritual well-being questionnaires by Dalman and Frey(2005),emotion regulation by Garnevsky et al.(2001) and resilience by Connor and Davidson(2003),which were completed by the veterans. The analysis of the findings with the statistical method of Pearson correlation coefficient in spss23 software showed that there was a positive and significant correlation between all the variables except for the relationship of spiritual well-being and acceptance strategy(P<0.01),also the structural equation model in pls4 software showed that The direct effect of spiritual well-being and resilience, as well as the direct effect of spiritual well-being and adaptive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation are significant(p<0.05).Examining the indirect effects of spiritual well-being and resilience through 5 adaptive emotion regulation strategies showed that only the strategy of refocusing on planning as a mediator has a significant indirect effect(p<0.05)

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