Promoting Social Resilience Based on the Relationship Between Difficulty in Emotion Regulation and Cyberspace Applications

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Department of Psychology, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran.

2 Imam Hossein University

3 Assistant professor, faculty member of the Organization for Educational Research and Planning, Research Institute for Education, Special Children Department

4 Department of psychology, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran

5 Department of Low, East Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad university, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate the relation  between difficulty in emotion regulation with social net sites addiction and game addiction with mediating hope to life in students. The current research method is descriptive and the research design is correlational. The statistical population of the present study included  the all students of Islamic Azad University, East Tehran Branch. The Sampling method was Snowball. 400 students completed the questionnaires. Research tools included difficulty in emotion regulation questionnaire (Gratz and Roemer, 2002), Social Net Addiction scale (Matinfar et al, 2018), Game Addiction (Matinfar et al, 2017), Hope To Life Scale (Miller, 1988). Data analysis was done using Structural Equation Analysis by Amos version 18 and SPSS version 26 software. Data Analysis showed that difficulty in emotion regulation has directly effect in social net addiction(P<0/0001 β-0/39) .  difficulty in emotion regulation has directly effect in Game addiction (P<0/05 β-0/13) .Hope of Life has the mediate role between between difficulty in emotion regulation with social net sites addiction and game addiction (P<0/05). Inaddition to practical and theoretical implications, research findings can be used as a useful model for providing psychological services to students to prevent social net addiction and game addiction.

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  • Receive Date: 11 November 2024
  • Revise Date: 04 January 2025
  • Accept Date: 18 February 2025
  • Publish Date: 21 July 2025

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