Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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. Ph.D. Candidate of Psychology, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad University, Marvdash, Iran.
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology of Psychology, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad university , Marvdash, Iran
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology of Psychology, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad university , Marvdash, Iran .
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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology of Psychology, Marvdasht Branch, Islamic Azad university , Marvdash, Iran.
Abstract
Introduction: Aggression has significant outbreak hence in adolescence and is an important topic in many studies of psychology and sociology. The goal of this study was to determine the mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation strategies in the relationship between personality traits and early maladaptive schema with aggression.
Method: The research design was descriptive-correlational and the statistical population of the study included all Yasouj high school students during 2019-2020 academic year, among whom 240 students were selected by multi-stage random sampling method. In this study was used to collect data from Boss and Perry's Aggression Questionnaire, NEO-Five Factor Inventory by Costa & McCrae 1985; Cognitive Emotion Regulation by Garnefski, Kraaij & Spinhoven (2001) and Young Schema Questionnaire (YSQ) (1988). The reliability of the questionnaires was approved using cronbach's alpha coefficient. Evaluation of the proposed model with path analysis was done and Bootstrap command was used for studying the mediatory role in AMOS software. Results: The result of analysis revealed that cognitive emotion regulation strategies affect the relationship between personality traits of openness and extraversion with aggression. Also, cognitive emotion regulation strategies had a moderating role only in the relationship among early maladaptive schema and aggression. Conclusion: Based on the results of this research, personality traits and early maladaptive schema strategies indirectly and through cognitive emotion regulation strategies had meaningful effects on aggression.
Discussion and conclusion: It can be concluded that multiple inteaction between the variables of early maladaptive schema, personality traits and cognitive emotion regulation strategies variables, play an important role in predicting adolescent aggression.
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