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Feelings of wellbeing provides a strong base for Healthy and successful life. Level of Well-being enabling people to successfully overcome difficulties and achieve what they want out of life. When we talk about wellbeing, we are not only speaking of being joyful, although this is part of well-being. Well-being is individual's multi-dimensional state which includes physical, mental health, knowledge understanding, work freedom, utility and healthy relationship. Health is a state of being with physical, cultural, psychosocial, economic and spiritual attributes, not simply the absence of illness. There may be many groups of factors which affect the outcome on health and wellbeing of individuals. Emotion Regulation is an important personal factor which plays a significant role in enhancing and optimization of psychological well-being. Emotion regulation includes all processes that are involved in changing current or expected emotional states regarding their intensity, quality, duration, speed of elicitation, and recovery in the service of adaptation. The present study attempts to examine the role of emotion regulation in psychological well-being. The sample of 100 college students of mixed gender was selected for the present study. Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (Gross and John, 2003), General Health Questionnaire (GHQ; Goldberg, 1978)and General Well-Being Index (GWBI) by Dupuy (1984) tools were used for this study. Results showed that emotion regulation plays important role in health and well-being, especially cognitive reappraisal an emotion regulation strategy positively associated with one's health and well-being. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
