Presenting a structural model of the effect of family emotional atmosphere on high-risk behaviors with mediation of resilience and emotion regulation in high school male students

Subject Areas : Psychology

saeideh kohansal nalkiashari ¹ , Samereh Asadi Majreh ² , bahman Akbari ³

1 - Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran
3 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Rasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Rasht, Iran

Received: 2021-09-20 Accepted : 2021-12-25 Published : 2022-11-22

Keywords: high school male students, resilience, family emotional atmosphere, high-risk behaviors, emotion regulation,

Abstract :

The aim of this study was to determine the effect of family emotional atmosphere on high-risk behaviors  with mediation of  resilience and emotion regulation. The method of this research was descriptive in terms of applied purpose and descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of the study was 850 students of all secondary school students in Langarod city in the academic year 1399-1400, of which 265 statistical samples were selected by multi-stage random-cluster sampling. The  Family Emotional Atmosphere Questionnaire (Hill Burn, 1964), Iranian Adolescents' Risk Scale (Zad Mohammadi  & Ahmadabadi, 2008), Resilience Scale (Conner & Davidson, 2003) and Emotion Regulation (Gross & John, 2002). Structural equation modeling and Amos24 software were used to analyze the data. Findings showed that the emotional atmosphere of the family has a positive and direct effect on resilience (p <0.01), Emotion regulation (p <0.05) Resilience and emotion regulation (p <0.001) have a direct and negative effect on high-risk behaviors. as well as indirect effect of family emotional atmosphere whit medition of resilience and emotion regulation on high-risk behavior.

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