Keskiner Edib Şevki, Şahin Ertuğrul, Topkaya Nursel, Yiğit Zehra
Department of Counseling and Higher Education, Patton College of Education, Ohio University, 1 Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA.
Department of Guidance and Psychological Counseling, Faculty of Education, Amasya University, Amasya Merkez 05100, Türkiye.
Behav Sci (Basel). 2024 Dec 26;15(1):6. doi: 10.3390/bs15010006.
The purpose of this study was to examine the association between behavioral emotion regulation strategies and symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress among Turkish university students. Participants consisted of 633 students continuing their university education in two different universities in Türkiye. Participants completed a data collection tool comprising a Sociodemographic Information Form, the Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and the Depression Anxiety Stress Scales-21. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson's product-moment correlation coefficient analysis, and multivariate multiple regression analysis. The results of this study revealed that seeking distraction was negatively associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress, whereas withdrawal, seeking social support, and ignoring were positively associated with symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress among university students. Additionally, actively approaching was negatively associated with depressive symptoms. Overall, the findings demonstrate that university students who use maladaptive behavioral emotion regulation strategies (e.g., withdrawal, ignoring) tend to have higher levels of psychological distress, whereas university students who use adaptive emotion regulation strategies (e.g., distraction) tend to have lower levels of psychological distress. However, contrary to expectations, seeking social support was positively associated with symptoms of psychological distress. Given the paucity of research on the relationship between behavioral emotion regulation strategies and psychological distress in the Turkish cultural context, this study may contribute to identifying both universal and culturally specific strategies associated with depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms among Turkish university students.
本研究旨在探讨土耳其大学生的行为情绪调节策略与抑郁、焦虑和压力症状之间的关联。研究参与者包括在土耳其两所不同大学继续接受大学教育的633名学生。参与者完成了一份数据收集工具，该工具包括一份社会人口学信息表、行为情绪调节问卷和抑郁焦虑压力量表-21。数据采用描述性统计、皮尔逊积差相关系数分析和多元多重回归分析进行分析。本研究结果显示，寻求分心与抑郁、焦虑和压力症状呈负相关，而退缩、寻求社会支持和忽视与大学生的抑郁、焦虑和压力症状呈正相关。此外，积极应对与抑郁症状呈负相关。总体而言，研究结果表明，使用适应不良行为情绪调节策略（如退缩、忽视）的大学生往往心理困扰水平较高，而使用适应性情绪调节策略（如分心）的大学生往往心理困扰水平较低。然而，与预期相反，寻求社会支持与心理困扰症状呈正相关。鉴于在土耳其文化背景下，关于行为情绪调节策略与心理困扰之间关系的研究较少，本研究可能有助于识别与土耳其大学生抑郁、焦虑和压力症状相关的普遍策略和文化特定策略。
