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Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, North Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran , Sue.ershadi@gmail.com
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Background: Any high-risk behavior can cause serious and sometimes irreparable harm to the individual and family. High-risk behavior often occurs in an emotionally-charged context, and executive functions and emotion regulation play important roles in risk-related decision making. Therefore, identifying the factors that facilitate and sustain risky behaviors in different groups is an inevitable necessity.
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between executive functions and high-risk behaviors in prisoners considering the mediating role of emotion regulation strategies.
Methods: The present study is descriptive and correlational, conducted by structural equation modeling method. The statistical population of this study is all prisoners in Shiraz city. The sample consisted of 409 prisoners in Shiraz who were selected by purposive sampling. Data were collected using Cognitive Abilities Questionnaire (Nejati 2013), Emotion Regulation Strategies (Garnefski et al., 2001), and Youth Risk Behaviors Scale (Snow et al., 2019). To evaluate the proposed model, structural equation modeling was used using AMOS version 24 and SPSS 27.
Results: The results of correlation coefficient showed that there is a negative relationship between executive functions and adaptive emotion regulation strategies with risky behaviors (P< 0.05). Also, there is a positive and significant relationship between maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and risky behaviors (P< 0.05). The findings indicate that the proposed model is fitted with the data. The results of the structural model showed that 19% of the variance of adaptive strategies and 25% of variance of maladaptive strategies is explained by executive functions and 45% of variance of risky behaviors is explained by executive functions and adaptive and maladaptive strategies of emotion regulation.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that risky behaviors are affected by cognitive and emotional functions and cognitive emotion regulation strategies have a mediating role in this regard, which requires psychological interventions. Our results suggest that treatment for high-risk behavior may be more effective with a nuanced approach that does not conflate high impulsivity necessarily with high-risk behavior tendencies.
Aims: The aim of this study was to investigate the structural relationship between executive functions and high-risk behaviors in prisoners considering the mediating role of emotion regulation strategies.
Methods: The present study is descriptive and correlational, conducted by structural equation modeling method. The statistical population of this study is all prisoners in Shiraz city. The sample consisted of 409 prisoners in Shiraz who were selected by purposive sampling. Data were collected using Cognitive Abilities Questionnaire (Nejati 2013), Emotion Regulation Strategies (Garnefski et al., 2001), and Youth Risk Behaviors Scale (Snow et al., 2019). To evaluate the proposed model, structural equation modeling was used using AMOS version 24 and SPSS 27.
Results: The results of correlation coefficient showed that there is a negative relationship between executive functions and adaptive emotion regulation strategies with risky behaviors (P< 0.05). Also, there is a positive and significant relationship between maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and risky behaviors (P< 0.05). The findings indicate that the proposed model is fitted with the data. The results of the structural model showed that 19% of the variance of adaptive strategies and 25% of variance of maladaptive strategies is explained by executive functions and 45% of variance of risky behaviors is explained by executive functions and adaptive and maladaptive strategies of emotion regulation.
Conclusion: It can be concluded that risky behaviors are affected by cognitive and emotional functions and cognitive emotion regulation strategies have a mediating role in this regard, which requires psychological interventions. Our results suggest that treatment for high-risk behavior may be more effective with a nuanced approach that does not conflate high impulsivity necessarily with high-risk behavior tendencies.
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