The Prediction of Tendency to Addiction Based on Social Self-Esteem and Cognitive Emotion Regulation in University Students

The purpose of this study is to investigate the prediction of tendency to addiction based on social self-esteem and cognitive emotion regulation in undergraduate University Students at 2016-2017. The method of this study is descriptive- correlational and Statistical population of the study comprised all of undergraduate students of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences that among them, 198 students were selected as sample by using available sampling method. Questionnaire tendency to addiction, social self-esteem scale and short form of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire were used for data collection. Descriptive statistics methods (average, standard deviation) and Inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression) were used for analyzing data. The findings showed that there is a significant negative correlation between social self-esteem and cognitive-emotional adjustment components compatible with the tendency to addiction among students. There was also a significant positive correlation between the components of cognitive-emotional adjustment incompatible with addiction tendency among students. Itcan be concluded that social self-esteem and components of cognitive-emotional adjustment and components of cognitive-emotional disorder are among important variables related to addiction tendency in students.