Özet:

This study aims to study the relationships between cognitive flexibility, self-regulation and stress management strategies in university students and identify the strategies of cognitive flexibility and self-regulation variables. The study was conducted on a total of 317 women (66.3%), 161 men (33.7%) and 478 students who studied in various universities in Turkey. In the collection of data, the information flexibility inventory, the self-regulation scale and the short form of the inventory to cope with stressful situations were used. In data analysis, visual statistics, Pearson correlation ratio and multiple regression analysis were used. According to the research findings, the relationship between cognitive flexibility and self-regulation has been found in a positive direction at a medium level, and both variants have been found to be linked in a positive direction to solving and emotional and negative. Nevertheless, there was no meaningful relationship between avoidance and cognitive flexibility and self-regulation. According to the results of the analysis of the approach to the solution, the model is meaningful as a whole, and the cognitive flexibility and self-regulation variables included in the model revealed 55% of the total variance of the approach to the solution. According to the results of the analysis of the method of emotional dealing, the model is meaningful as a whole and the cognitive flexibility and self-regulation variables included in the model revealed 15% of the total variance of emotional dealing. The findings were discussed in the light of the summer, and recommendations were given to mental health workers and researchers.