Comparison of adaptive-maladaptive emotional schemas and positive-negative emotion regulation in Iranian and Afghan students: Across-cultural study

Rezaei , Mehdi; Mohammadi, Mohammad-Ali; Samadieh, Hadi

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Rezaei M, Mohammadi M, Samadieh H. (2025). Comparison of adaptive-maladaptive emotional schemas and positive-negative emotion regulation in Iranian and Afghan students: Across-cultural study. Rooyesh. 14(1), 21-30.
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Comparison of adaptive-maladaptive emotional schemas and positive-negative emotion regulation in Iranian and Afghan students: Across-cultural study

Mehdi Rezaei ^*¹

, Mohammad-Ali Mohammadi²

, Hadi Samadieh³

1- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran. , Mehdi.rezaei15@birjand.ac.ir
2- M.A. in Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.
3- Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Birjand, Birjand, Iran.

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This study aimed to compare emotional schemas (adaptive-maladaptive) and emotion regulation strategies (positive-negative) between Iranian and Afghan students. The research method was a causal-comparative. The statistical population included all Iranian and Afghan students at the University of Birjand in the second semester of the academic year 2023-2024. Among them, 220 people (110 Iranian students and 110 Afghan students) were selected through the available sampling method. Research questionnaires included: The cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ; Garnefski et al., 2002) and the Leahy Emotional Schemas Scale (LESS; Leahy, 2002). Multivariate covariance analysis (MANCOVA) was also used to analyze the data. The findings showed that there is a significant difference between the two groups in maladaptive emotional schemas (uncontrollability, rationalism, and rumination) and negative emotion regulation strategies (blaming and catastrophizing) (p<0.001). These results show that emotional schemas and emotional regulation are socio-cultural and are formed in different ways as a result of complex social, historical, linguistic, and psychological interactions in different cultures.

Keywords: Emotion Regulation, Emotional Schema, Afghan, Iran.

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Type of Article: Research | Subject: General Psychology
Received: 2024/10/2 | Accepted: 2024/11/2 | ePublished: 2025/04/22