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Instructor, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Islamshahr Branch, Iran

Abstract

This study was conducted to determine the role of humor and emotional order in predicting psychological capital in secondary school students in the second district of Mashhad. The research method was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of this study included all secondary school students in the second district of Mashhad, studying in the academic year of 2009-2010. The sampling method was a cluster random sampling based on a table of Karajsi and Morgan (1970), and 300 individuals were selected. The tools used to measure the research variables included the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ), the Occupational Humor Questionnaire, and the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). Data analysis using multivariate regression test showed that the variables of humor and emotion regulation can predict about 37.6% of the variables of psychological capital variables. The results of this study showed that there is a relationship between humor and emotion regulation and psychological capital.

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