Document Type : Original Article
Authors
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PhD student in psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit.
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Iran University of Medical Sciences
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Payam Noor, Tehran, Iran.
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Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Unit
Abstract
Introduction: Although the relationship between attachment and emotional regulation has been confirmed in many studies, little attention has been paid to its mediating factors, now the term reflective function as a new concept that has been considered in psychoanalysis and refers to psychological processes with the basis of mentalization and It has common roots with these two structures, it has been investigated in the present research. The aim of this study was to investigate the moderating role of reflective function in the relationship between attachment styles and difficulty in emotion regulation. Method: The design of this non-experimental research is correlational. The participants of this study included the students of Payamnoor universities in West Azerbaijan (Miandovab, Shahindej, Bukan, Urmia) who were studying in the academic year 1397-1398, which was multi-stage cluster sampling (the first stage of the university, the second stage of the faculty, the third stage of the class) 180 People were selected and responded to reflective functioning questionnaires (RFQ), attachment styles (Hazen and Shaver, 1987) and emotion regulation difficulty (Gratz, 2004). Results: Hierarchical regression showed that people with a higher secure attachment style have higher confidence, which reduces the difficulty of emotion regulation. In addition, having an avoidant and anxious attachment style with high uncertainty increases the difficulty of emotion regulation. Discussion and conclusion: Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that the reflective function of certainty and uncertainty moderates the relationship between attachment and the difficulty of emotion regulation, and secure and insecure attachment styles accompanied by the reflective function of certainty and uncertainty decrease and increase the difficulty of emotion regulation.
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