چکیده:
Objectives: Cognitive flexibility, shame, and emotion regulation difficulties are considered
potential mediating factors that may explain the relationship between neuroticism and
depression severity. The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of cognitive
flexibility, shame and emotion dysregulation in the relationship between neuroticism and
depression among university students.
Methods: A total of 271 students (102 males and 169 females) were selected by cluster random
sampling from University of Tehran, Allameh Tabataba’i University, and Iran University of
Science & Technology. Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), Test of Self-Conscious Affect-2
(TOSCA-2), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), NEO Five-Factor Inventory,
and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) were used to collect the data. Pearson correlation,
multiple regression, and path analysis were applied for data analysis.
Results: It was found that neuroticism was significantly associated with depression and all
three mediators (P<0.0001). Neuroticism by means of emotion dysregulation was the only
significant indirect effect on depression (P<0.0001). First total mediation model had a poor fit
to the data, CMIN=87, P<0.0001, CMIN/df=21.75, CFI=82, RMSEA=28.
Discussion: These findings suggest that for student depression, emotion dysregulation might
be important and future intervention works can examine the effects of targeting emotion
dysregulation among university students with high levels of neuroticism and/or depression
خلاصه ماشینی:
Research Paper: The Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility, Shame and Emotion Dysregulation Between Neuroticism and Depression Majid Zarei1, Fereshte Momeni1*, Parvaneh Mohammadkhani1 1.
The Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility, Shame and Emotion Dys- regulation Between Neuroticism and Depression.
1. 61 Article info: Received: 16 Jun. 2017 Accepted: 21 Oct. 2017 Keywords: Psychopathology, Depression, Neuroticism A B S T R A C T Objectives: Cognitive flexibility, shame, and emotion regulation difficulties are considered potential mediating factors that may explain the relationship between neuroticism and depression severity.
The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of cognitive flexibility, shame and emotion dysregulation in the relationship between neuroticism and depression among university students.
Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), Test of Self-Conscious Affect-2 (TOSCA-2), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), NEO Five-Factor Inventory, and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) were used to collect the data.
The volume of research shows the value of examination of emotional strategies as mediators of the neuroticism-depression association; however, few stud- ies have focused on emotion dysregulation as a broad factor or its subscales in the relationship.
The current study explored the relationship of cogni- tive flexibility, shame, and emotion dysregulation as po- tential mechanisms underlying the association between neuroticism and depression in students (Figure 1).
I ranian Rehabilitation Journal For the evaluation effect of cognitive flexibility, shame, emotion dysregulation, and neuroticism on depression, multiple regression was conducted, and another model was run with three subscales of Cognitive Flexibility In- ventory (CFI) and six subscales of difficulty in emotion dysregulation scale (DERS) (Table 2).