The relationship between emotional regulation strategies and Sense of Social Security with Quality of Life of Bojnord Students

The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between emotional regulation strategies and social security sense with the quality of life among university students. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study consisted of all students of Applied Science and Technology University of Bojnord city who were students in 2018-2019. Out of this population, 242 students (123 female and 119 male) were selected as target group by stratified random sampling method. The data were collected by using the Gransfeck et al (2001) emotional regulation strategies, researcher-made social security sense questionnaires and the Weir & Sherbun (1992) quality of life scale. For data analysis, the criteria used included the average values, standard deviation, and frequency distribution table by the help of SPSS software in order to analyze descriptive statistics, regression analysis and one-way analysis of variance. Correlation results showed that variables of emotion regulation strategies and sense of social security had a positive significant relationship with the quality of life. Regression analysis showed that only positive strategies could explain the changes in the quality of life with a beta of 0.238. According to the results of the study, any action taken to improve the sense of social security and increase the use of positive emotion regulation strategies will improve the quality of life.