Ali Reza Aghayousefi; Morteza Tarkhan; Azam Farmani
Abstract
Religious- ethical resources and recent psychological research have emphasized the role of patience in promoting mental health. A model investigating the mediating role of patience components in the relation between the Big Five factors of personality and emotion regulation strategies has been presented ...
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Religious- ethical resources and recent psychological research have emphasized the role of patience in promoting mental health. A model investigating the mediating role of patience components in the relation between the Big Five factors of personality and emotion regulation strategies has been presented in this study. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the role of the Big Five factors of personality in predicting cognitive emotion regulation strategies with the mediating role of patience components. The statistical population of the present study was all of university students studying at Shiraz Payam-e-Noor University in the academic year 2014- 2015. Two hundred and ninety six university students were recruited among them via cluster sampling method. The participants answered the Short form of Goldberg’s 50- Item Personality Scale, Patience Scale and Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire. To analyze the data, mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation coefficient in the descriptive statistics section were utilized. And in the inferential statistics section, path analysis in Structural Equation Modeling (SEM) was used. Moreover, SPSS16 and AMOS were run to analyze the data. The results indicated that the Big Five factors of personality except openness to experience could directly predict patience components and positive and negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies. Moreover, Agreeableness (β= 0.09; P< 0.0001), Conscientiousness (β= 0.04; P< 0.0001) and Neuroticism (β= -0.04; P< 0.001) indirectly predicted the positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and the patience components of Transcendence and Persistence played mediating roles. Negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies were indirectly predicted by Conscientiousness (β= -0.07; P< 0.0001) and Neuroticism (β= 0.09; P< 0.0001) and Acceptance showed a mediating role. It can be concluded that patience components as mediating variables can moderate the effects of negative personality characteristics (e.g., Neuroticism) on emotion regulation strategies and reinforce the effects of positive personality characteristics (e.g., Agreeableness and Conscientiousness) on these strategies. Applying educational strategies of patience in order to increase emotion regulation strategies among patients is recommended to psychologists.
