AUTHOR=Chen Xiaoxue , Huang Zejuan , Lin Wei 

TITLE=The effect of emotion regulation on happiness and resilience of university students: The chain mediating role of learning motivation and target positioning

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=13

YEAR=2022

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1029655

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1029655

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Objective</title><p>To investigate the effect andmechanism among emotion regulation, relationship,happiness, learning motivation, target positioning, and resilience of university students.</p></sec><sec><title>Method</title><p>A total of 904 university students in China were included in this cross-sectional survey from April to May this year. The self-administered questionnaires, including the adapted Mental Health Scale with a Healthy Personality Orientation for College Students, were used to construct structural equations to test the chain mediating effects of learning motivation and target positioning based on a multi-stage whole group sample of university students.</p></sec><sec><title>Result</title><p>Emotion regulation indirectly affected happiness through the mediating effect of interpersonal relationship (Med = −0.387, <italic>p</italic> = 0.001). Learning motivation and target positioning play the chain mediating role in the effect of emotion regulation on happiness (Med = −0.307, <italic>p</italic> = 0.001) and resilience (Med = −0.275, <italic>p</italic> = 0.001).</p></sec><sec><title>Conclusion</title><p>Emotion regulation indirectly affected happiness and resilience through the chain mediating effect of learning motivation and target positioning.</p></sec>