Causal relationship between Cognitive Emotion Regulation and psychological well-being with regard to the mediating role of mindfulness in students

The purpose of present study was to examine the causal relationship between Cognitive Emotion Regulation and psychological well-being, considering the mediating role of mindfulness in middle school students in Tehran.

This descriptive correlational study was conducted on a sample of 352 people using a multi-stage cluster sampling method among all the second grade high school students of the district 2, Tehran province, during the academic year, in 2020-21. data were collected using Gratz & Roemer’s difficulties in emotion regulation scale (DERS) (2004), Ryff’s Psychological well-being inventory (2002) and Freiburg Mindfulness Inventory (2006). The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation and structural equation modeling, with AMOS and SPSS software version 24 at a significance level of P<0.01.  

The structural model of predicting psychological well-being based on the Cognitive Emotion Regulation with the mediating role of mindfulness in students had a good fit with the collected data (P<0.01). Therefore, the cognitive emotion regulation through the mediation of mindfulness significantly explain the psychological well-being of middle school students.

Considering the positive significant relationship between psychological well-being and cognitive emotion regulation and confirming the mediating role of mindfulness, school admins can provide life skills workshops at educational environments, so by increasing the students’ level of mindfulness, enhance the possibility of using the positive skills of cognitive emotions regulation