The Role of Religious Beliefs and Cognitive-Emotional Ordering Strategies WithAge Mediation in Psychological Well-Being

Abstract

Problem statement: The psychological well-being is the center of attention branch of psychology which called positive psychology and to Snyder and Lopez (2002) it is combined of happiness and meaning in life. The present study according to the importance of the relation cognitive emotion regulation and religious beliefs with age variable with psychological well-being playing the mediator role was conducted.
Methods: This is an applied type research and descriptive-correlation method. Questionnaires the relation cognitive emotion regulation, religious beliefs and psychological well-being were performed on 245 samples. To consider the validity of the questionnaire Cronbach's Alpha method, measure the proposed model and also research hypotheses structural equation modeling were used.
Findings: the results reveled that three questionnaires have adequate validity for research. According to the results in table 1, indicators had a suitable goodness-of-fit RMSEA=0.04, CFI=0.96 and GFI=0.97. The result showed that the model religious beliefs and adaptive cognitive emotion regulation are significant with psychological well-being but the maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation is not significant with psychological well-being.
Discussion and interpretation: individual who have high religious beliefs and adaptive cognitive emotion
regulation life situations and also high psychological well-being. Further suggestions were present for improving the situation of psychological well-being

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