A Comparative study of emotion regulation among police university students and nonmilitary university students

Emotion regulation has obvious role in mental health and it is too important component in Policing. So the aim of this study was to compare emotion regulation among police university students and nonmilitary university students.

This study is the descriptive and causal-comparative that done through field research. Data was collected through Emotion Regulation Difficulties Questionnaire (ERDQ). The population included all university students were studying at Police University and other universities in Tehran in 1395, of which 240 were selected as sample by systematic random sampling. To analyze the data, independent T test was used.

The findings of the present study showed that the mean and standard deviation of the scores of police university students in emotional regulation was (78.65 and 19.74, respectively) and the mean and standard deviation of scores of emotional regulation of nonmilitary students was (80.35 and 19.30, respectively). The score of police university students, except in the subscale of lack of emotional awareness, was lower than the average (2.5) in all subscales.

Based on the results of the present study, it seems that the emotional regulation of police university students is not significantly different from that of nonmilitary university students.