The relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and distress tolerance with life satisfaction of students susceptible to addiction: The mediating role of resilience

This study is aimed to relationship between cognitive emotion regulation strategies and distress tolerance with life satisfaction of students susceptible to addiction: The mediating role of resilience. The participants were consisted of 300 BA and MA students who are more susceptible to addiction (200 females and 100 male) of Allameh Tabataba’i University that were selected through random ratio cluster sampling and assessed by Weed & Butcher’s Addiction Potential Scale, Conner-Davidson’s Resilience Scale (2003 (, Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (2001), Simons and Gaher Distress Tolerance Scale (2005), Diener et al. Satisfaction with Life Scale (1985). Data was analyzed using Pearson correlation and path analyses. In regard to existing evidences, a casual model, proposed by the researcher was examined. The proposed model has sufficient fitness with data of the research. The results showed that strategies of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation are directly and indirectly (by mediating role of resilience) related to life satisfaction students susceptible to addiction; but it is a stronger predictor of life satisfaction indirectly. Distress tolerance had significant relationship with life satisfaction students susceptible to addiction only through mediating role of resilience. According to the result of this research developing of adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and distress tolerance skill might prove useful in planning interventions and resilience programs and increasing life satisfaction.