Evaluation of Psychological Well-being based on Brain-Behavioral Systems, Affective Styles and Emotion Regulation Strategy by Looking at the Genders' Role

© 2017 Deputy of Research and Technology of Baqiyatallah Hospital Abstract Introduction: In recent years, there has been great interest in positive psychology. The aim of the present study was to investigate and relations between the affective styles, personality traits based on behavioral activation, inhibition system and Emotion regulation with Psychological well-being among students. Materials and Methods: 340 students were selected by a multi-stage cluster sampling method. Then the affective styles questionnaire, brain-behavioral systems and Emotion regulation were distributed among participants. Collected data were analyzed by using descriptive and correlation indicators, simultaneous regression analysis and Paired t-test. Results: Results indicated that there is a significant positive correlation between affective styles with psychological well-being (P < 0.01) and a significant positive correlation between behavioral inhibition system and Psychological well-being (P < 0.01). Also, there were significant differences between men and women in psychological well-being. Conclusions: It seems that psychological well-being is related with biological dimensions of personality and affective styles. Furthermore Gender has important role in psychological wellbeing.