Effect of Emotional Regulation on Impulsivity and Anxiety Through the Mediating Role of Mindfulness
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Neeraj Panwar
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4345-6588
Shivani Tanwar
http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4345-6588
Shivani Tanwar
Abstract
Background: Adolescence is a phase blended with various challenges and changes. How someone takes these challenges and accepts the changes (physically, emotionally, or psychologically) are the major concerns of social scientists.
Objective: Keeping that objective in mind, current research has been done to assess if emotional regulation leads to impulsivity and anxiety through the moderating effect of mindfulness.
Method: For the purpose, correlational research design has been followed and randomly 150 young adolescent females were selected from various public as well as private schools following similar kinds of academic board (CBSE). Standardized tools pertaining to emotion regulation, impulsivity, anxiety, and mindfulness were administered. To accomplish the objectives of the study, apart from descriptive statistics correlation of coefficients was run followed by structural equation modeling (SEM) to highlight the mediating role of mindfulness between emotion regulation, impulsivity, and anxiety.
Conclusion: Major findings of the study revealed the direct effect of emotional suppression on anxiety and impulsivity through the moderating role of mindfulness whereas no such results were obtained for cognitive reappraisal. Hence, the proposed model has been partially found to be significant with the goodness of fitness index value of 0.935.
Keywords:
adolescence, emotional regulation, impulsivity, anxiety, mindfulness, structural equation model
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PANWAR, Neeraj; AGARWAL, Nupur; TANWAR, Shivani.
Effect of Emotional Regulation on Impulsivity and Anxiety Through the Mediating Role of Mindfulness.
Medical Research Archives, [S.l.], v. 11, n. 5, may 2023.
ISSN 2375-1924.
Available at: <https://esmed.org/MRA/mra/article/view/3807>. Date accessed: 25 apr. 2024.
doi: https://doi.org/10.18103/mra.v11i5.3807.
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