The discriminational role of emotion dysregulation, metacognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and anxiety in discriminant two groups of students with and without mobile phone addiction

Background: emotional dysregulation, metacognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and anxiety can play a very important role in a person's personal and social life. this study aimed to determine the discriminational role of emotion dysregulation, metacognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and anxiety in discriminant two groups of students with and without cell phone addiction. methods: the present study was descriptive and correlational. the statistical population consists of all male students in high school in tehran in the year academic 2019-2020. according to the convenience sampling method, 400 students (74 students with cell phone addiction and 326 students without cell phone addiction) were selected by model kline. they were asked to mobile phone addiction questionnaire (mpaq) of savari, difficulties in emotion regulation scale (ders) of gratz and roemer, meta-cognitions (mcq) of cartwright-hatton and wells, intolerance of uncertainty scale (ius-27) of freeston and et al., and beck anxiety inventory (bai). data were analyzed by using spss-24 software and the discriminant analysis method. results: the results showed that emotion dysregulation, metacognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and anxiety can help to cell phone addiction, and function discriminant analysis assigned 93.3 percent of the students with and without cell phone addiction. some factors, including emotion dysregulation, metacognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and anxiety were found to affect cell phone addiction. conclusion: to cell phone addiction, attention should be paid to emotional disorders, metacognitive beliefs, intolerance of uncertainty, and students' anxiety, and the necessary training should be given in this regard.