Investigating the Coping Relationship of Problem-Oriented and Excitement-Oriented and Cognitive Flexibility with Mental Health

Abstract

The main objective of this study was to investigate the relationship of coping strategies and mental health with mediation of cognitive flexibility. This study was seeking to find a structural model to investigate which one of coping strategies as predictor variables has relation with mental health as dependent variable with the mediation of cognitive flexibility. For this purpose, a sample of 262 boys and girls students of Got Talent schools of Abadan and Khorramshahr were randomly selected. This study was descriptive - correlational. The results of the correlation matrix among data showed a positive and direct relationship between problem-oriented coping strategy and mental health (r=0.38). The correlation between excitement-oriented coping strategy and mental health was negative and significant (r=-0.29) and a significant and positive correlation existed between the cognitive flexibility and mental health (r=0.39).