relationship between trait anxiety and emotional clarity with depression symptoms in college students with moderating role of cognitive flexibility

The purpose of the current study was to study the relationship between trait anxiety and emotional clarity with depression symptoms in college students with the moderating role of cognitive flexibility The research method was descriptive-correlation based on path analysis. Samples of this study were whole Mohaghegh Ardabili university students in the 1399 -1400 semester(n=12000). 249 of them that had ratings of 14 and higher in the Beck Depression Inventory were selected by the Purposive sampling method as samples. the questionnaires were Beck Depression Inventory (BDI, beck, 1996), Spielberger State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-X, Spielberger, 1970), Trait Meta Mood Scale (TMMS, Salovey& et al, 1995), and questionnaire cognitive flexibility(CFS, Vander and Valpe, 2010). For analyzing data we used the Pearson correlation test and path analysis. Results showed that the model has a good fit and there is a significant correlation(p<0/01) between trait anxiety and emotional clarity with depression symptoms. Furthermore, trait anxiety and emotional clarity had a negative and significant indirect effect(p<0/01) on depression symptoms through cognitive flexibility. Based on these findings trait anxiety and emotional clarity have both direct and indirect effects on depression symptoms and play a dynamic role in depression symptoms, these results can be used in designing preventive and intervention programs for depression symptoms.