The role of cognitive flexibility and cognitive emotion regulation in predicting social anxiety in university students

Document Type : Original Article

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1 Department of Counseling, Faculty of Education and Psychology,University of Shahid beheshti,Tehran,Iran

2 Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Itan

10.22098/jpc.2025.14783.1223

Abstract

Social anxiety disorder is a common problem in the field of mental health, one of its characteristic features is the fear of negative and positive evaluation by others. The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of cognitive flexibility and cognitive emotion regulation in predicting social anxiety of university students. The research population included all female students from bachelor's degree to doctorate studying in Shahid Beheshti University, and 250 of these students responded to the online questionnaire related to the research. The method of the current research was Pearson correlation and multiple regression analysis at the same time, and in order to collect data from three cognitive flexibility questionnaires of Dennis et al. (2010), the questionnaire of cognitive emotion regulation strategies of Garnefsky and Kraaij (2006) and the Leibowitz LSAS social anxiety scale (1987) used. The obtained results showed that the correlation of cognitive flexibility and cognitive emotion regulation with students' social anxiety was significant (0.05). The current study emphasizes that students who have poor emotional flexibility in social and functional situations and use only one method to solve a problem, and on the other hand, due to the high tension of that situation, have limited access to cognitive regulation of emotions. Finally, these factors can predict social anxiety in them. The results of this finding can be used by psychologists, counselors and other people who are in contact with students to help improve the symptoms of social anxiety in them by using treatments focused on these concepts

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