The Role of perfectionism and Self-compassion in predicting the Positive cognitive-emotional Regulation Strategies of Secondary School Students
Subject Areas : learningEnsiyeh Sadeghi 1 * , Fatemeh Tony 2
1 - University assistant professor
2 - MA psychology, Islamic Azad University , Chalus branch, Sari, Iran
Keywords: Perfectionism, self-compassion, cognitive-emotional regulation,
Abstract :
This study aims to investigate the role of perfectionism and self-compassion in predicting the positive strategies of cognitive regulation of emotions of secondary school students in a descriptive-correlational way, and all secondary school students of Nowshahr city who are studying in the academic year 1401-1402 formed the statistical population of this study. The sample size is estimated to be 260 people based on the Karjesi and Morgan table. Hill et al.'s perfectionism scale (2004), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ-P) and Rees, Pamir, Neff, and Gochet (2011) self-compassion scale were used to measure the variables. The findings indicate that the two variables of perfectionism and self-compassion are influential in explaining the positive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation with beta coefficients of 0.431 and 0.364; Also, among the components of perfectionism, two components of order and organization and interpersonal sensitivity with beta coefficients of 0.408 and 0.403 play a role in predicting positive strategies of cognitive regulation of emotion, and among the components of self-compassion, the components of mindfulness, feeling of isolation, self-judgment, and increased identification with beta coefficients of 0.432, 0.586, 0.622, and 0.297, respectively, are able to predict strategies. They have positive cognitive regulation of emotion.