Prediction of separation anxiety based on parental mentalization with the mediating role of emotion regulation

Ekvan, Farnaz

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Ekvan F. Prediction of separation anxiety based on parental mentalization with the mediating role of emotion regulation. JNIP 2022; 14 (18) :1-13
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Prediction of separation anxiety based on parental mentalization with the mediating role of emotion regulation

Farnaz Ekvan ^*

Master of Clinical Psychology, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Faculty of Human Sciences, Islamic Azad University, Khomeinishahr Branch, Isfahan, Iran.

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The purpose of the current research is to predict separation anxiety based on parental mentalization with the mediating role of emotion regulation. The research method is correlation using structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the present study included all the third to fifth elementary students and their mothers in Tehran in the academic year of 1401-1400, and 160 of them were selected as a sample using multi-stage cluster sampling. . The measurement tools in this research were separation anxiety questionnaires (parent version) by Han et al. (2003), parental mentalization by Leviten et al. (2017) and emotion regulation by Gross and John (2003), all of which had acceptable validity and reliability. In order to analyze the data, two descriptive (central and dispersion indices) and inferential (structural equations) methods were used using SPSS-V24 and Lisrel-V8.8 software. The results showed that parental mentalization can directly and indirectly (with the mediating role of emotion regulation) predict separation anxiety. In general, the research results indicated that emotion regulation plays a mediating role in the relationship between separation anxiety and parental mentalization.

Keywords: separation anxiety, parental mentalization, emotion regulation

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Type of Study: Research | Subject: Special
Received: 2022/12/29 | Accepted: 2022/12/6 | Published: 2022/12/6