Examining the psychometric properties of the self-disclosure scale and its relationship with difficulty in regulating the excitement of female students of Tehran Azad University

Today, due to the very important role that emotions have in human life, their expression and disclosure can bring many benefits to people. So, this article aims to investigate the psychometric properties of the self-disclosure scale and its relationship with the difficulty in regulating the emotions of female students of Azad University of Tehran.

This descriptive-correlation study was conducted. The statistical population includes all female students of Azad Universities in Tehran who were studying in the academic year of 1402-1401, and the sample size was considered equal to 500 people. Random and multi-stage cluster were selected. The research tools included Gerrard's self-disclosure questionnaire (1974) and Goetz and Rothmer's (2004) difficulty in emotion regulation questionnaire were used. In order to check the validity of the mentioned questionnaires, construct and content validity were used. Content validity was confirmed by professors and also a number of experts, and confirmatory factor analysis was used to check construct validity, and Cronbach's alpha index was used to measure construct validity, and Cronbach's alpha coefficient was more than 0.7, which indicates reliability. It was questionnaires. The data was analyzed descriptively and inferentially through SPSS software.

The results show that the significance level of the self-disclosure variable (0.000) is less than 0.05. Therefore, there is a significant correlation between the self-disclosure variable and the difficulty in regulating students' emotions

The results of data analysis showed; According to female students of Azad universities in Tehran, there is a positive and direct relationship between self-disclosure and difficulty in regulating students' emotions.