Mediating role of optimism regarding the difficulties in emotion regulation and spiritual well-being of resident girl students in the dormitory of Isfahan University.

摘要

Purpose: This study has been conducted aims to determine the mediating role of optimism regarding the difficulties in emotion regulation and spiritual well-being. Material and Method: The applied tools were included Palatzion & Ellison spiritual well-being questionnaire (1983), the questionnaire of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) and Life Orientation Test (LOT-R) (Carver & Scheier, 1989). Indirect effect (mediator variable) was tested using the bootstrap method in macro SPSS Preacher & Hayes (2004). Research method is correlation and statistical society was the all girl students who are newly resident in dormitories of Isfahan University which 200 people were selected from them by simple random sampling. Findings: The findings showed that difficulties in emotion regulation are in relationship with the spiritual well-being and procedural and interactive optimism (P<0.01). Also, optimism mediates the relationship between difficulties in emotion regulation and spiritual well-being.