Correlation between emotion regulation and mental well-being among university students during COVID-19
Studies have shown that emotion regulation has a significant association with mental health. It also serves as protective factor against mental illness. This current study intends to examine how emotion regulation contributes to mental well-being of university student especially in the pandemi...
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Penerbit Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia
2022
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| Online Access: | http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20547/1/739-2717-1-PB.pdf http://journalarticle.ukm.my/20547/ https://spaj.ukm.my/ppppm/jpm/issue/view/46 |
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| Summary: | Studies have shown that emotion regulation has a significant association with mental health. It
also serves as protective factor against mental illness. This current study intends to examine
how emotion regulation contributes to mental well-being of university student especially in the
pandemic. A cross-sectional study conducted among 478 university students (221 medical and
257 non-medical students) were selected using convenience sampling method. Data were
collected using Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) and Short Warwick-Edinburgh
Mental Well-being Scale (SWEMBS). T-test, Pearson correlation and linear regression using
SPSS version 25 were used to analyse the data. There was a significant difference between
mental well-being and expressive suppression strategy (subscale of ERQ) between medical and
non-medical students respectively (p<0.003, p<0.01). A significant positive correlation was
established between cognitive reappraisal (subscale of ERQ) and mental well-being with the
value of (r=0.45, p<0.001), while expressive suppression showed no significant correlation.
Regression analysis indicated that cognitive reappraisal could predict the mental well-being of
university students (B=2.11, p<0.001). Emotion regulation has been found to be associated
with mental well-being of university students especially in the subscale of Cognitive
Reappraisal. Cognitive reappraisal has been found to predict mental well-being of students
which shows that by changing the way one thinks about a life situation, it may help them to
improve their mental well-being. |
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