The Relationship Between Metacognition and Metaemotion with Distress Tolerance: The Mediating Role of Psychological Flexibility

The aim of this study was to determine the structural relationship between metacognition and meta-emotion with distress tolerance by the mediatory of psychological flexibility. The study design was descriptive correlational and statistic population was all students of Mazandaran Islamic Azad University. For this purpose, 352 students were selected using multistage randomized cluster sampling method and responded to Metacognitive Questionnaire (Wells & Cartwright-Hatton, 2004), Meta-emotion Questionnaire (Mitmansgruber, Beck, Höfer & Schübler, 2009), Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (Bond, Hayes, Baer, Carpenter, Guenol et al., 2011), and Distress Tolerance Scale (Simons & Gaher ,2005). First, to evaluate the fitness of the models confirmatory factor analysis was used and then the fitness of the proposed model was analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling. Findings indicated a suitable fitness of the model to the data. Moreover, the results showed that the relationship between metacognitive and meta-emotion with distress tolerance by the mediatory of psychological flexibility was stronger than their direct relationship with distress tolerance. Therefore, the findings of this study revealed the importance of the mediating role of psychological flexibility in the relationship between metacognition and meta-emotion with distress tolerance