Cognitive emotional regulation strategies among students of Mosul University

The research aims to identify:1-The level of cognitive emotional regulation strategies among the students of the University of Mosul.2-The statistically significant differences in the cognitive emotional regulation strategies among the research sample members according to a variable; Gender (males. females). grade (second. fourth). specialization (scientific. human).The descriptive approach was adopted. and the research community consisted of (23051) male and female students for the academic year (2021-2022). and a stratified random sample was selected of (920) male and female students. at a rate of 4%. The cognitive emotional regulation strategies scale was built. which includes two types of strategies (pre-focus strategies - focus response strategies) of the type of items. For the purpose of extracting the psychometric properties. the scale was presented in its initial form to experts in educational and psychological sciences to extract the apparent validity. and the structural validity of the scale was extracted. and calculating the discriminatory power of the items. so the calculated T values ranged between (2.153-6.121). which is greater than the tabular value of (1.96). and thus all the items of the scale are distinguished. The stability was also extracted by methods (test and re-test. and the value of the correlation coefficient was (0.83). And the alpha was (0.81). Until the number of items of the scale in its final form became (30). and the research data was processed by statistical means (one-sample t-test. two independent samples t-test. Pearson correlation coefficient. Cronbach's alpha equation) by means of the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS).The research reached the following results:1-The level of cognitive emotional regulation strategies among Mosul University students is within the average level.2-There are no statistically significant differences according to the gender variable (male - female). the grade variable (second - fourth). and the specialization variable (scientific - human) in the level of cognitive emotional regulation strategies among the students of the University of Mosul.Based on the results that have been reached. the researcher recommends the following:1-The Ministry of Higher Education should work to include the curricula related to cognitive emotional regulation strategies.2-Universitys professors encourage students to use cognitive emotional regulation strategies in their dealings with others.The results resulted in several suggestions. including conducting a study on:1-Cognitive emotional regulation strategies and their relationship to the emotional efficiency of university students.2-The effect of a training program on developing cognitive emotional regulation strategies among university students.