Investigating the effect of distress tolerance on mental health and academic performance: regarding the mediating role of emotion regulation in female students

Subject Areas : Educational

shakila nayebzadeh ¹ , manijeh Shehni Yailagh ² , seyedmohammadjavad mousani nia ³

1 - Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shaid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Received: 2022-07-23 Accepted : 2022-09-26 Published : 2023-11-22

Keywords: academic performance & female students, emotion regulation, Distress Tolerance, mental health,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of distress tolerance on mental health and academic performance with the mediation of emotion regulation in female students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz. The statistical population included all the female students of Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz who were studying in the academic year of 2019-2020 and 176 people were selected as a sample from them through a multi-stage random sampling method. In order to examine the research variables of each participant, completed the Distress Tolerance Scale (Simmons and Gaher, 2005), the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003) and the General Health Questionnaire (Goldberg and Hiller 1979). The results showed that the model has a good fit with the data of the present study. The research method is descriptive-correlational type and structural equation modeling was used to analyze the data using SPSS and amous software. The results showed that distress tolerance both directly and indirectly through emotion regulation has a positive and significant relationship with mental health and academic performance.

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