Comparison of emotional processing and emotional self-regulation in female students with depressive symptoms and normal

Gita Bahar¹

1) 1. M.A of General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Ardabil Branch, Ardabil, Iran

IOI Code : XEFA-HFEKB
Publication : 3th National Conference on Psychopathology(asruma3.ir)
Abstract :
    This research was conducted with the aim of comparing emotional processing and emotional self-regulation in female students with depressive symptoms and normal ones. The research method was a causal-comparative one that was done post-event. The statistical population of the research included all female students of the second year of secondary school in Ardabil city in the academic year of 2021-2022. The sample size included 80 people (40 people with depression symptoms and 40 normal people) who were selected by available sampling method. Emotional self-regulation scale, emotional processing scale and Beck depression test were used to collect data. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS version 22 statistical software and by multivariate variance test (MANOVA). Based on the findings, there is a significant difference between emotional processing and emotional self-regulation in female students with depressive symptoms and normal ones (p<0.01). So that female students with symptoms of depression received low grades in emotional processing and emotional self-regulation compared to normal female students (p<0.01). The obtained results emphasize the importance of paying attention to the variables of emotional processing and emotional self-regulation in students with symptoms of depression.

Keywords : depressive emotional processing emotional self regulation