
Scientific Reports, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 15(1)
Опубликована: Янв. 29, 2025
The objective of the present study was to predict drug use among Iranian students on basis alexithymia, gender, age, and mediating role emotion regulation difficulty. This research employed a descriptive-correlational approach (structural equation modeling). statistical population included 400 high school studying during 2023–2024 academic year in cities Khorramabad Ardabil. instruments used this short form Difficulties Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS-SF), Toronto Alexithymia (TAS-20), Addiction Potential (APS) its version. path coefficients related effect alexithymia difficulty were significant at 0.05 level, except for paths from gender age tendency, which not confirmed. Age, collectively explained 52% variance difficulty, whereas 46% propensity students. Among variables studied, only predictors students, both directly through significantly predicted propensity.
Язык: Английский