Date Created
12-2019
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
College of Education and Behavioral Sciences, Psychological Sciences, SPS Student Work
First Advisor
Marilyn Welsh
Abstract
Emotional regulation can be best defined as a socially acceptable emotional response to experiences and circumstances of the everyday human experience. Emotional regulation (ER) plays a major role in handling stress, adaptively, in the collegiate lifestyle. This research examined the associations between emotional regulation, risk-taking, and college adaptation among 96 students at a mid-sized university in Colorado. The online-surveying website included five different measures of emotional regulation, college adaptation, and risk-taking. Results showed difficulties with emotional regulation positively correlate more with expressive suppression and negatively correlated with cognitive reappraisal. The adaptive strategy of cognitive reappraisal had a positive relationship with college adaptation, while ER difficulties negatively predicted college adjustment. Ethical risk taking was negatively correlated with college adaptation but was not found to be a mediating variable between ER and college adaptation. Future research should continue to examine the associations among these constructs to inform interventions that can facilitate a healthy transition and adaptation to college.
Rights Statement
Copyright is held by the author.
Recommended Citation
Pellegrino, Alexa J., "Associations Between Emotional Regulation, Risk Taking, and College Adaptation" (2019). Undergraduate Honors Theses. 29.
https://digscholarship.unco.edu/honors/29