The Mediating Role of Emotion Regulation in the Relationship between Corona Disease Anxiety and Health-Related Quality of Life in Students

Abstract

The primary objective of this research was to ascertain the extent to which emotion regulation acts as a mediator between covid-19 anxiety and students' HRQoL. A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted in Guilan province in the winter of 2021, involving 18,000 students. A total of 369 students wer​e selected at random and provided their responses voluntarily on three scales: the Health Survey Questionnaire (SF-36), the Emotion Regulation Skills Questionnaire (ERSQ), and the online-adjusted Corona Disease Anxiety Scale (CDAS). The AMOS-24 software was utilized to conduct the data processing, employing the Pearson correlation coefficient and SEM technique. A statistically significant negative relationship was observed between anxiety related to the coronavirus and both HRQoL and emotion. A good fit was obtained by the mediator model (CFI = 0.944, RMSEA = 0.074). The results of the bootstrap analysis conducted using the MACRO program of SPSS-24 software indicate that there is no significant mediating effect of emotion regulation on the relationship between corona disease anxiety and HRQoL (p = 0.1998). The findings suggest that the important role of anxiety on HRQoL be considered and therapists and those in charge of macro-health policies put on the agenda the implementation of enterprises in the face with health conditions, the issue of coping with anxiety in their outcomes.

Keywords

• anxiety
• covid-19
• emotion regulation
• health behavior
• quality of life