The Mediating Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Emotional Maturity and Self-Differentiation with Family Communication Patterns in Young People

The development of emotions and feelings is formed with the passage of time and reveals the background of a person's nature. After that, the living environment, the way of education and the models that exist around him play the biggest role in a person's reaching emotional maturity and understanding the emotions of others, which is realized in moral competence. The aim of this study was to mediate the cognitive regulation of emotion in the relationship between emotional maturity and self-differentiation with family communication patterns in young people .

The research method is cross -sectional correlation. The statistical population of this study consisted of all students (boys and girls) of Tehran Azad University in the academic year 1399 - 1400, from which 400 people were selected by stepwise cluster sampling. In this study, the tools of family communication patterns (Fitzpatrick and Rich, 1990), emotional maturity (Singh and Bahargawa, 1991), self-differentiation (Skorn and Friedlander, 1998) and emotional cognitive regulation (Garnfski and Craig, 2006) were all used. They had acceptable credibility and reliability .

Findings showed that the model has a good fit. The results also showed that emotional maturity had a significant direct effect on family communication pattern. Differentiation has had a significant direct positive effect on family communication pattern. Moral competence has a direct positive effect on the cognitive regulation of positive emotions. Emotional maturity has a direct positive effect on cognitive regulation of positive emotion and a direct negative effect on cognitive regulation of negative emotion. Differentiation has a direct direct effect on cognitive regulation of positive emotion. Differentiation also had a significant direct negative effect on cognitive regulation of negative emotion. Cognitive regulation of positive emotion has a direct effect on family communication pattern. Cognitive regulation of negative emotion also had a direct negative effect on family communication pattern. Emotional maturity has an indirect effect on family communication pattern through negative emotion regulation. Differentiation has had an indirect effect on family communication pattern by regulating positive and negative emotions.

Therefore, paying attention to the mentioned variables in prevention and designing more appropriate treatments helps researchers and therapists.