الاستراتيجيات المعرفية الشائعة لتنظيم الانفعالات لدى عينة من طلبة الجامعات الأردنية في ضوء متغيرات النوع و الجامعة و التخصص

Abstract EN

The present study aimed at exploring the cognitive affect-regulation strategies for a sample of students from University of Jordan, Al-Ahliya Amman University, the Arab Open University- Jordan Branch.

The sample consisted of (383) male and female students from the departments of management, computing, english language & education.

The cognitive strategies scale, (56) items for measuring the cognitive affect-regulation strategies, was applied.

Results revealed that the religious thoughts strategies came first, being the most used strategy among the University students.

The strategy that came next was that of analyzing situations and feeling, followed by the reframing and growth strategy.

The least used strategy was the importance mitigating strategy.

The study showed significant differences between students in the cognitive strategies with (0.05) statistical significance related to the variables of sex (male, female), the study level, university, and specialization.

Females were found to make more use of the religious thought’s strategies, comparison with previous events, and reality testing.

The students of the first level were found to use the strategy of self-blame more than the students of the second level, and the students of the third level were found to use this strategy more than the students of first level.

As for the acceptance of the situation strategy students of first level showed more acceptance of the situation more than students of third and fourth levels.

Students of Al-Ahliya Amman University showed higher self-blame in comparison to the students of the University of Jordan and the Arab Open University who showed a higher level of religious thoughts whern regulating their negative emotions, Moreover, the study showed that there are no significant differences between students in affect-regulation Strategies depending on the specialization variable.