
Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 16
Published: Feb. 7, 2025
Time perspective (TP) influences how individuals perceive and classify their past, present, future, impacting cognition, behavior, psychological outcomes. Deviation from the balanced time (DBTP) is associated with mental health problems (e.g., depression anxiety). Emotion regulation (ER) encompasses cognitive behavioral processes to regulate emotions, maladaptive strategies like rumination withdrawal linked anxiety. Despite extensive research on TP ER, joint impact, particularly in context of anxiety, cultural differences remain underexplored. Participants (N = 513 Iranian, N 470 Turkish) completed self-report questionnaires perspective, symptoms. A moderated mediation model was assessed, incorporating exogenous variable DBTP, ER as mediators, endogenous variables depressive anxiety The accounted for variations paths a moderator. Significant associations were found between strategies, depression, Mediation analyses revealed that both (except adaptive strategies) significantly mediated DBTP Additionally, multigroup suggested these mediating effects consistent across Iranian Turkish samples, exceptions strategies. study highlights crucial role TPs predicting symptoms, notable nuances. Specifically, exacerbate while mitigate them primarily contexts. Cultural subtleties are discussed detail.
Language: Английский