The mediating role of resilience in the relationship between positive and negative emotional expression in the family and adolescent psychological well-being

Adolescence is a time to begin behaviors and conditions that affect well-being at the time but also lead to disorders in adulthood. Despite the family’s importance role in the developing psychological well-being, the direct and indirect effect of family emotions on well-being has been neglected so far.

The purpose of this study was to determine the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between positive and negative emotion expression in family with adolescent psychological well-being.

This study was a descriptive-correlational study. The statistical population of this study consisted of all boy adolescents of Shiraz city that 206 of them were selected as the sample group using multistage cluster sampling and they responded to Conner-Davidson Resilience Scale (2003), the Family Expressiveness Questionnaire (Halberstadt, 1986) and short form of Reefchr('39')s Psychological Well-Being Scale (1989). Path analysis was used for data analysis.

The results of the path analysis showed that the direct effect of positive emotion expression to psychological well-being variable (β= 0/242, T= 4/042) and the direct path of negative emotion expression on the psychological well-being were significant (β= -0/291, T= 4/865). Also, it was shown that the indirect effect of positive emotion expression on the psychological well-being variable through resiliency was significant
(β= 0/063, p< 0/05). Finally, it was shown that the indirect effect of the variable of negative emotion expression on the variable of psychological well-being through resilience was significant (β= -0/058, p< 0/05).

Based on the results of this study, it is suggested to consider the mediating role of resilience in the relationship between positive and negative emotional expression and psychological well-being and therapists to incorporate this component in their therapeutic application.