The Role of Emotional Regulation in Predicting Positive Psychological States and Psychological Toughness of Students

The purpose of this research was to investigate the role of emotional regulation in predicting the amount of positive psychological states and psychological toughness of students.The descriptive research method was a correlation type and the statistical population of the research was made up of all undergraduate students of Ahvaz Azad University in the academic year of 2022-2023 Also, to collect information, Gross and Jan's (2003) emotion regulation questionnaires, Rajaei et al.'s positive psychological states questionnaire (2010) and Ahvaz psychological toughness scale were used.The research data has been analyzed using statistical package for social sciences version 22 at the descriptive and inferential level. The results of the research indicated the role of emotion regulation in predicting the amount of positive psychological states and psychological toughness of students. And according to the findings of the research, the independent variable of emotion regulation has a positive and significant relationship with the dependent variables of psychological states and psychological toughness in students. . The sampling method in this research was based on random sampling according to the extent of the population. A sample size of 100 people was selected using Morgan's table.