Emotional Regulation Strategies in Men and Women with Varying Levels of Psychological Well‑Being

Introduction. Psychological well-being, such as positive self-acceptance, productive relationships with others, autonomy, environmental management, and the ability for personal growth, is a significant problem in psychological research. In the situation of stress and complexity of the modern world, one of the urgent tasks is to investigate the factors that affect the psychological well-being of the individual, to determine the internal resources of a person that provide opportunities for self-realization and social adaptation, to describe the features and differences in the conditions of psychological wellbeing for men and women. This article presents the results of studying the relationship between emotional regulation strategies and psychological well-being in men and women of different age groups.

Objective. To study differences in the strategies of emotional regulation in men and women with different levels of psychological well-being; to identify factors influencing the formation of dysfunctional emotional schemes.

Materials and Methods. To determine the level of psychological well-being, the K. Riff Scale of psychological wellbeing adapted by N. N. Lepeshinsky was used. To diagnose the general level of intensity of emotional schemes and identify specific variants of dysfunctional schemes, the Leahy Scale of emotional schemes, LESS II, adapted by N. A. Sirota, D. V. Moskovchenko, V. M. Yaltonsky was used. The study also used the Muddy Resilience Test adapted by E. N. Osin; the Self-management research methodology, VCI, adapted by O. V. Mitina and E. I. Rasskazova. Statistical analysis of the obtained data was performed using the Kruskal-Wallis test and linear regression analysis.

Results. The results of the study showed that respondents with a low level of psychological well-being have a wider range of dysfunctional emotional circuits; there are gender and age differences in the emotional regulation strategies used. Indicators of psychological well-being affect the prevailing emotional patterns in men and women.

Discussion. The problem of the relationship between emotional regulation strategies and quality of life (psychological well-being) is widely presented in psychology today. Among the most developed problems are the following: strategies of emotional regulation as a factor of psychoemotional disorders; the influence of maladaptive emotional schemes on stress experience, as well as the study of gender and age differences in indicators of psychological well-being.

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