TITLE:
Emotion Regulation Strategies as a Predictor of Life Satisfaction in University Students
AUTHORS:
Ahmet Yiğit, Ahmet Ragıp Özpolat, Mehmet Kandemir
KEYWORDS:
Emotion Regulation, Suppression, Reappraisal, Life Satisfaction
JOURNAL NAME:
Psychology,
Vol.5 No.6,
April
24,
2014
ABSTRACT: The goal
of this research is to analyze the predictive power level of parent educational
background, parent profession and suppression and reappraisal strategies, which
are the emotion regulation strategies, on life satisfaction of individuals.
Multiple Linear Regression model is used in the study whose research group is
made of 422 students from a University, which has a total of 28,000 students,
situated in the East of Turkey. Students in the research group are from different
grades and demographic features. “Emotion Regulation Scale”, “Satisfaction with
Life Scale”, and “Personal Information Form” are used in gathering the data of
the research.