Causal Model of Emotional schema and Alexithymia with Anxiety Sensitivity via Mediating Role of Difficulties in Emotion Regulation in Students

Students are among the people who struggle with anxiety as one of the common problems, for this reason, the investigation of anxiety structures is of great importance to predict anxiety, so the purpose of the present study is to investigate the causal model of emotional schema and alexithymia with anxiety sensitivity through the mediating role of difficulty in emotion regulation in second year high school students. The method of the current research was correlation and structural equation modeling. The target population of the research was all the students of the second year of secondary school in Torbat-Haydriya city in 1400-1401, who were sampled through available sampling in the number of 220 people. The necessary information was collected through Floyd Anxiety Sensitivity Questionnaires (ASI), Leahy Emotional Schema Questionnaire (LESS), Gratz and Romer Difficulty in Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (DERS) and Toronto Alexithymia Questionnaire (TAS_20).Data were analyzed through SPSS 26 and AMOS 24 statistical software. The results showed that emotional schema and alexithymia are indirectly related to anxiety sensitivity through the mediating factor of difficulty in regulating emotions, but these two variables are not directly related to anxiety sensitivity. Therefore, teachers and therapists can come up with emotion regulation training and interventions based on emotion regulation in the direction of modulating anxiety sensitivity.