Effect Of Emotion Regulation Strategy On Resilience In Junior High School Students

In recent years,incidents of psychological crisis among adolescence have been frequently reported by the media,drawing the attention of all sectors of society,thus government published related policies to call for attention to the mental health of teenagers.Resilience is the process by which individuals adapt positively to adversity and stress,and it plays an important role in adolescent physical and psychological health.Enhancing adolescents’resilience under frustration helps them to develop in a sustainable and positive manner,therefore it has become a hot spot of research in recent years.The resilience process model indicates that cognition and emotion as internal factors influence greatly resilience,and cognitive reappraisal as a positive emotion regulation strategy can effectively increase positive emotion experience and protect resilience.Meanwhile,Dialectical Behavioral Therapy,which focuses on transforming individuals’cognitive styles and improving emotion regulation,has been widely demonstrated by scholars for its effectiveness on adolescent mental health.In order to develop a more targeted and operationalized program for enhancing adolescents’resilience,this study investigates the intervention effects of group counseling based on dialectical behavior therapy on resilience of junior high school students from the perspective of the relationship between emotion regulation and resilience.In study 1,the questionnaire was used to investigate resilience and emotion regulation strategies of a sample junior high school students in Huzhou City,Zhejiang Province,to verify the predictive effect of emotion regulation strategies on resilience.In study 2,selected from students with low resilience in study 1,subjects were divided into experimental and control groups.Then an eight-week Dialectical Behavioral Therapy（DBT）group counselling programme was applied to experimental group to investigate the effects of DBT,which focuses on changing cognitive styles and improving emotion regulation on their resilience.The conclusions drawn from the study show as following:（1）Generally,junior high school students’resilience is good,but 27%of students are on the low side.In terms of emotion regulation strategies,students tend to use cognitive reappraisal more than expression suppression.（2）There were significant gender and grade differences in resilience of junior high school students,with junior school freshmen scoring higher than 8^th grader students on total score and goal planning,with boys scoring significantly higher than girls on total score,goal planning,affect control and positive thinking of resilience.Students who were class officers scored significantly higher on goal planning than those who were not.There were no significant differences of resilience in residential locations and whether they were the only child.（3）There were no significant differences of junior high school students on both cognitive reappraisal and expressive inhibition in terms of grade,gender,whether they were class officers,where they lived and whether they were the only child.（4）Resilience was significant positively related to cognitive reappraisal,and significantly negatively related to expression suppression.Cognitive reappraisal can positively predict resilience,while expression suppression can negatively predict resilience.（5）Dialectical behavioral therapy can significantly improve cognitive reappraisal and reduce expression suppression to promote students’resilience.