Structural equation modeling approach in explaining the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation anddepression, anxiety, stress

The aim of this study was to evaluate relationship between the cognitive emotion regulation strategies with depression, anxiety, and stress in university students. Structural equations method was used for investigation of the relationships between the variables. The data were collected from Islamic Azad University, Central Branch in Tehran in the form of stage cluster sampling. A sample including 360 individuals responded to the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire, out of which 82 persons also responded to the depression anxiety stress scale (Dass .21), in addition to the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire. In confirmatory factorial analysis of the cognitive emotion regulation questionnaire using Amos 21, 10 questions were eliminated, culmina- ting in a 26-item questionnaire with seven factors, which confirmed the theoretical background. The measurement model enjoyed a favorable fitting. The structural model among the variables (cognitive emotion regulation with Dass) had a suitable fitting. There was a negative significant relationship between the positive strategies of cognitive emotion regulation and the factors of Dass scale. Similarly, there was a positive significant relationship between the negative strategies of the cognitive emotion regulation and the factors of Dass Scale.