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individuals actively contribute to the occurrence of negative dependent life events in theirlives. The present study focuses on the role which change in negative life events has in explaining the relationship between trait NA andchanges over time in both affective (emotional distress) and cognitive (life satisfaction) components of SWB.Longitudinal data were collected in five waves from 386 university students. Participants completed the measure of trait NA (Positive andNegative Affect Schedule) at the initial assessment. The measures of negative life events (Check list of negative life events), emotionaldistress (Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale), and life satisfaction (Satisfaction with Life Scale) were administered at four time points,every six months. The data were analyzed using multilevel mediation analysis in STATA.The results showed that trait NA made a significant contribution to the prediction of changes in emotional distress and life satisfaction.Higher NA was associated with higher levels of emotional distress as well aslower levels oflife satisfaction. In addition, trait NAsignificantly predicteda number of life events at each timepoint and their change over time. Finally, the multilevel mediation modelassessed whether change in number of life events accounted for changes in emotional distress and life satisfaction. We found thatchange in negative life events over time partially mediated the relationship between trait NA and changes in emotional distress (ind_eff= .022; dir_eff = .353; tot_eff = .376), whereas it did not mediate the relationship between trait NA and life satisfaction. The presentfindings suggest that change in number of life events over time is one of the mechanisms explaining the relationship between trait NA andchanges in emotional distress, but not in the cognitive component of SWB. Practical and theoretical implications of the findings will bediscussed. Keywords • negative affectivity, number of life events, life satisfaction, emotional distress, multilevel mediation References: Brett, J. F., Brief, A. P., Burke, M. J., George, J. M., & Webster, J. (1990). Negative affectivity and the reporting of stressfullife events. Health Psychology, 9(1), 57-68.Judge, T. A., Locke, E. A., Durham, C. C., & Kluger, A. N. (1998). Dispositional effects on job and life satisfaction: the role of coreevaluations. Journal of applied psychology, 83(1), 17-34.Davila, J., Hammen, C., Burge, D., Paley, B., & Daley, S. E. (1995). Poor interpersonal problem solving as a mechanism of stress generationin depression among adolescent women. Journal of abnormal psychology, 104(4), 592-600
POW011 - Multiple Mediation of Emotion Regulation Strategies in the Relationship Between Loneliness andPositivity in Adolescents M. A. YıldızAdıyaman University, Faculty of Education, Department of Counseling and Guidance, Turkey Purpose: The current study aims to investigate the parallel multiple mediation role of emotion regulation strategies in the relationshipbetween adolescents’ loneliness and their positivity.Method: Participants consisted of a total of 300 high school students (F= 146, 48.7%; M= 154, 51.3%) who attended to a high schools inAdıyaman during 20142015 academic years. Age range of the participants varied between 14 and 19-year old with mean age of 15.51(Sd=1.09). Data were collected through the Short-Form of UCLA Loneliness Scale (Yıldız & Duy, 2014), Emotion Regulation Scale forAdolescents (Duy & Yıldız, 2014), Positivity Scale (Duy & Yıldız, 2014), and the Personal Information Form. Data analysis was based ondescriptive statistics and Pearson correlation coefficient. Statistical significance of the mediating effects of the model tested in the currentresearch was examined by Ordinary Least Squares Regression Method and Bootstrap Method through the software developed by Hayes(2012; 2013). Bootstrap analyses were conducted through PROCESS Macro and “Multiple Mediation Model 4” for parallel multiplemediation. Statistical significance of the mediating variable was examined on 5000 bootstrap samples. Significance level was set as .05.Results: The research results showed that the mediations of internal-functional emotion regulation, internal-dysfunctional emotionregulation, and external-functional emotion regulation were statistically significant. However, external-dysfunctional emotion regulationwas not found to be statistically significant. According to paired comparisons conducted to define which mediating variable mediatedmore strongly, internal-dysfunctional emotion regulation was a more powerful mediator than internalfunctional emotion regulation,external-dysfunctional emotion regulation, and external-functional emotion regulation.Conclusion: The current research showed that particularly the internal-dysfunctional emotion regulation is a strong mediating variable inthe relationship between adolescent loneliness and positivity. At schools, adolescents who frequently use the dysfunctional strategies ofemotion regulation such as suppression may be defined; and individuals and group psychological counseling for these adolescents may beconducted by psychological counselors. In future studies, the effects of family factors such as attachment to parents, parents-
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