Prediction of Alexithymia based on Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Mindfulness in female students with Negative Affect

Background and Aim : Negative affect in female students can lead to academic failure. Negative affect can lead to problems such as alexithymia, also the aim of this study was to predict alexithymia based on cognitive emotion regulation and mindfulness in female students with negative affect.Methods : This study is a descriptive-correlational study. the statistical population of the study includes all female students of Payame Noor University of Urmia in the 2018-2019. Using the sampling method, 240 female students who had negative emotions based on the response to the positive and negative affect scale of Watson et al, Were selected as the research sample. they completed the Alexithymia Toronto questionnaire, Garnefsky et al of Cognitive emotion regulation and mindfulness questionnaire of Bauer et al. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and multiple regression.Results : The results showed that there was a negative significant relationship between positive cognitive emotion regulation strategies with alexithymia (p < 0.01) and total score of mindfulness with alexithymia (p <0.01). there was a positive and significant relationship between negative cognitive emotion regulation strategies and alexithymia (p <0.05). also multiple regression results showed that % 38 of variance of alexithymia in female students with negative affect was predicted by cognitive emotion regulation and mindfulness adjustment.Conclusion : The results indicated that cognitive emotion regulation and mindfulness has a important role in alexithymia of female students with negative affect. Therefore, according to the results, can reduce alexithymia in female students with negative affect.

کلیدواژه ها:

Alexithymia ، Cognitive Emotion Regulation ، Mindfulness ، Negative Affect