Investigating the role of emotional regulation in reducing perceived stress among adolescents

Adolescents go through a lot of emotional and psychological changes at this time, thus emotional regulation is essential to their mental health and the way they handle their emotions can have a big impact on how stressed they feel as they deal with the challenges of relationships, identity, and schoolwork. It is crucial to comprehend how emotional regulation and perceived stress interact in order to create interventions that help teenagers deal with the difficulties they encounter. This investigation clarifies the significance of developing emotional regulation in these early years in order to reduce perceived stress. This study investigates the relationship between emotional regulation and perceived stress among adolescents. A sample of 100 adolescents (50 males and 50 females) was assessed using the Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) and the Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ). The findings indicate a significant gender difference in emotional regulation and perceived stress; furthermore indicating the negative correlation between emotional regulation strategies and perceived stress levels, suggesting that effective emotional regulation can mitigate stress perceptions in adolescents. These results underscore the importance of emotional regulation in promoting mental health and well-being in this vulnerable population.