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Structural Modeling of Anxiety Sensitivity and Social and Emotional Loneliness in Tendency to Addiction: The Mediating Role of Difficulty in Emotion Regulation in Male Students
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Eisa Naghizadeh   , Fatemeh Torkashvand |
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Introduction: One of the most important social harms of societies today is the problem of addiction, which causes the imposition of individual, family, and social functions. The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the relationship between anxiety sensitivity and social and emotional loneliness in tendency to addiction with the mediating role of difficulty in emotion regulation in male students.
Methods and Materials: The current research was based on the correlation method and structural equations. The statistical population included all undergraduate male students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences in the academic year of 2022, of which 300 were selected by stratified random sampling. In order to collect data the scale of anxiety sensitivity Floyd et al. (2005), social and emotional loneliness of De Thomas et al. (2004), difficulty in emotion regulation Gertz and Romer (2004) and tendency to addiction Wade and Butcher (1992) were used. Path analysis causal modeling was done using SPSS-25 and PLS software.
Results: The proposed model had a good fit. The results showed that anxiety sensitivity and social and emotional loneliness had significant direct effects and also significant indirect effects through the difficulty in emotion regulation in tendency to addiction.
Conclusion: The results of the research show the important role of personality and individual factors in the pathology of tendency to addiction, which can be considered as central components in the design of preventive and educational programs for experts in this field.
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| Keywords: Anxiety Sensitivity, Emotional Loneliness, Difficulty in Emotion Regulation |
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Received: 2024/03/5 | Accepted: 2023/08/10 | Published: 2023/08/10
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