Cognitive regulation strategies as mediation in anxiety and academic adjustment in university students

Hossam –Eddin Abulhassan Hassan

doi:10.34069/AI/2020.30.06.11

Hossam –Eddin Abulhassan Hassan Jazan University, KSA. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0565-5079

DOI: https://doi.org/10.34069/AI/2020.30.06.11

Keywords: Adaptive/Maladaptive CERS, TA, TA, College Students.

Abstract

The aim was to investigate the relationship between and among cognitive emotion regulation, test anxiety and academic adjustment and the possibility of cognitive emotion regulation (CER) to mediate the relationship between academic adjustment (TA) and academic adjustment (AA). We hypothesized that the association between test anxiety and AA is mediated by cognitive emotion regulation. Convenient sampling method was employed to recruit the participants. The sample of the study consisted of 180 students (100% males) representing students from college of education, Jazan University, KSA, aged 19-21 years, with an average of 20.2 years, with a standard deviation of 5.45. For the purpose of this study, quantitative survey research was employed, with cognitive emotion regulation as independent variable, and TA and TA as dependent variables. Findings revealed that adaptive cognitive emotion regulation correlates negatively with TA, and also negatively with AA. On the other hand, Maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation was found to be positively correlated with AA. While AA found to be negatively correlated with TA. The coefficients related to the Adaptive CER regression paths to TA and AA, Maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation regression paths to TA and AA are significant at 0.01 level regardless of their direction.

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Author Biography

Hossam –Eddin Abulhassan Hassan, Jazan University, KSA.

PhD. Assistant professor College of Education Jazan University, KSA.

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