Effectiveness of education emotion regulation techniques on reducing stress and increasing resilience of students

Emotional regulation as the cognitive style of information management Can be an emotional trigger that encompasses a wide range of cognitive, behavioral, emotional, and physiological responses, it Helps to manage or regulate emotions and facilitates one's adaptation to the environment.The purpose of study was determine the effectiveness of education emotional regulation techniques on reducing perceived stress, difficulty in emotional regulation and increasing resilience among students.For this purpose, a pre-test, post-test and follow-up study with a control group, 100 students with high stress and low resilience at Imam Khomeini International University in Qazvin were selected by available sampling and randomly assigned to experimental and control group. The members of the experimental group were exposed to the emotion regulation education  program during 8 sessions and the control group did not receive any interventions.The analysis of covariance data showed that the education program of  emotional regulation  significantly decreased the perceived stress, the difficulty of emotional regulation and increasing the resiliency analysis of variance with repeated measurement of data showed that the results were consistent during the follow up period. The results showed that the education  of emotional regulation techniques affect the components of genralized stress and distress tolerance and it can be used as an effective interventional method to reduce stress, improve the emotional regulation difficulties, and increase resiliency.