The relationship between family emotional climate with emotional self-regulation and resilience in university’s students

Introduction: Identifying the factors related with the affective family climate are among the most important family psychological research goals. Aim: This study was conducted with the aim of examining the relationship of affective family climate with emotional self-regulation and resiliency of students. The statistical population of this research consisted of all the students of Azad University of Mashhad who were busy studying during the educational year of 2017-2018. Method: The method of this research was descriptive of correlational type. The research sampling was done using stratified sampling and included 150 students. Research instrument consisted of three questionnaires of affective family climate (Hill Berne, 1964), emotional self-regulation questionnaire (Hoffman and Kashdan, 2010) and resiliency questionnaire (Cutter and Davidson, 2003). The data were analyzed using Pearson correlation test and multivariate regression. Results: The findings showed that, affective family climate is significantly correlated with emotional self-regulation and resiliency (P<0.05). Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be stated that, regulation of emotions and resiliency are two important variables that are associated with the affective family climate in the students.