Purpose: This study was conducted with the aim of family communication patterns and moral competence in young people with a mediating role of cognitive emotion regulation.
Materials and Methods: The research method is cross-sectional correlation. The statistical population of this study consisted of all students (boys and girls) of Tehran Azad University in the academic year 2020-2021, from which 400 people were selected by stepwise cluster sampling. In this study, the tools of communication patterns, moral competence and emotional cognitive regulation were used, all of which had acceptable validity and reliability. SPSS-V23 and Amos-V8.8 software were used to analyze the data. Structural equation modeling was also used to answer the research hypotheses.
Findings: The research findings showed that the model has a good fit. The results also showed that moral competence had a significant direct positive effect on family communication pattern. Moral competence has a direct positive effect on the cognitive regulation of positive emotions. Cognitive regulation of positive emotion has a direct effect on family communication pattern. Cognitive regulation of negative emotion also had a direct negative effect on family communication pattern. Moral competence has had an indirect effect on family communication patterns through positive emotion regulation.
Conclusion: Therefore, the more people perceive the family communication space based on the direction of dialogue, the more they can use the cognitive strategy of emotion regulation and accordingly, moral competence increases.