The Relationship Between Emotion Regulation Self - Efficacy And Self - Esteem And Depression In Higher Vocational College Students

Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy (RES) is a new direction of the emotion regulation domain. In order to explore the application of Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy Scale in higher vocational school students,292effective questionnaires from two higher vocational schools in Jiangsu province were collected. The results showed the scale and subscale’s Coefficient of internal consistency were among0.72-0.84, the model’s x2/df=3.00, RMSEA=0.08, and CFI, NFI, GFI etc., were all greater than0.9.In this thesis, we sampled569valid participants in higher vocational school of Jiangsu, Guangdong, Shandong, by using regulatory emotional self-Efficacy scale, self-esteem scale, Self-Rating Depression Scale and analyzed the characteristics of participants’Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy, self-esteem and depression. Further the researcher explored the role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy between self-esteem and depression by the application of mediating effect model and nonparametric percentile bootstrap method. The thesis draws the following conclusions:(1)The Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy in gender, class leader or not, liberal art or science and grade were significantly different.①Males are significantly higher than females in ANG, perceived self-efficacy in managing despondency/distress(DES) and RES. Females are significantly higher than males in POS.②class leaders are significantly higher than others in RES, POS, ANG, and DES.③liberal art students are significantly higher than science students in POS, but significantly lower in RES, ANG and DES.④Students from grade one are significantly higher than students from grade two in POS. In RES, ANG and DES students from grade one are significantly higher than grade three.(2)The depression, self-esteem and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy were significantly related to each other.(3)The self-esteem and Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy had significantly negatively predictive effect on the depression respectively.(4)The Regulatory Emotional Self-Efficacy played an intermediary role between the self-esteem and the depression.