Predicting Clinical Syndrome in Students with Emotional Breakdown Experience based on Personality Structures: the Moderating Role of Perceived Social Support

This study investigated the role of personality constructs in predicting the clinical syndrome of students with emotional breakdown and moderating role of perceived social support in this relationship. Using purposive sampling and based on questionnaires of the love trauma, Beck depression and GHQ in students with emotional breakdown experience, 65 students with and 65 students without the clinical syndrome were selected from Payam Noor University of Tabriz, Tabriz University, and Islamic Azad University of Tabriz, and completed HEXACO questionnaire and multidimensional scale of perceived social support (MSPSS). Data analysis was done using SPSS16 and LISREL 8.54 by multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) and path analysis. The results showed that there was a significant difference between two groups in personality characteristics and social support (P<0.05), and social support had a moderating role in developing clinical syndrome after emotional breakdown. Personality characteristics and social support affect everyone's romantic relationships and would predict how to deal with the challenges in these relationships. After an emotional breakdown, if families are able to bring children out of this crisis with their direct and indirect support, this will lead to passing the trauma naturally and will prevent the continuation of the clinical syndrome.