Emotional Regulation Difficulties as a Mediating Variable between Stressful Life Events and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome in expatriate mothers

Abstract

The current study aimed to measure the level of emotional regulation difficulties, stressful life events, and chronic fatigue syndrome in a sample of expatriate mothers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, also it aimed to measuring the differences between the highs and lows levels of emotional regulation difficulties, in both stressful life events and chronic fatigue syndrome, and it aimed to study the effect of the variables of age and the duration of expatriation on each of emotional regulation difficulties and stressful life events and chronic fatigue syndrome, also it aimed to study the possibility to accept the default model for the relationship between the three study variables. 112 expatriate mothers of different Arab nationalities participated in, it was applied to them emotional regulation difficulties scale by Gratz and Roemer (2004) translated into Arabic by the researcher, and stressful life events scale prepared by the researcher, and chronic fatigue syndrome by Mostafa (2019). The results indicated to a low level of regulating emotion difficulties, and a medium level of stressful life events, and low level of chronic fatigue syndrome. There were a significant differences between the highs and lows levels of emotional regulation difficulties, in both stressful life events and chronic fatigue syndrome for the high levels, there was no effect for age and duration of expatriation on each of emotional regulation difficulties and stressful life events and chronic fatigue syndrome but there was effect for the interaction between age and duration of expatriation on emotional regulation difficulties, the results of the study also indicated acceptance of the default model.