The Relationship of Emotional Self-Regulation, Self-Efficacy and Resilience in Tendency to Drugs Use in Athlete and Nonathlete University’s Students

Background and

 Addiction is one of the four major global crises. Young people in the scholarly period are susceptible to high-risk behaviors due to more participation in their peers' groups, including substance use. Sports and exercise are considered protective factors. However, athletes also sometimes engage in drug-related behaviors. The study aimed to investigate the relationship between emotional self-regulation, self-efficacy, and resilience with the addiction potential in Qom students.

 This research is a correlational study. By the convenience sampling method, 384 students (128 female) from Qom universities in Iran were selected. Affective Style Questionnaire (Hofmann & Kashdan, 2010), Self-Efficacy Scale (Sherer & Adams, 1983), resilience (Connor & Davidson, 2003), and addiction potential scale (Weed & Butcher, 1992) were distributed among the population for data collection. In analyzing the data, hierarchical regression and SPSS 26 software have been used.

 The results of this study showed that the addiction potential with emotional self-regulation, self-efficacy, and resilience has a significant and negative correlation, and also the results of hierarchical regression analysis showed that adapting among emotional styles with resilience had the greatest effect on reducing the addiction potential, so that adaptation alone 4% of variance tended to drug use and resilience. Alone, 3% of the variance explains the substance use tendency. Finally, studies demonstrated that there are significant positive relationship between gender and sport activity with addiction potential.

 The results of the research showed that emotional self-regulation, self-efficacy, and resilience as protective factors in reducing drug use in students, and their cultivation could be reducing the addiction potential in students.