Psychological hardiness role and importance has been shown as a supportive psychological feature during life
pressure in most of various researches. To form this important characteristic, there are some hypotheses and
suppositions, but there is not much studies in this case The aim of this research is studying the relationship between
anxiety and in emotion regulation with psychological hardiness in student .This research is a correlational
study.160 students selected randomly from the female students of Tonekabon Azad University. To collect the data,
we used Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and the Ahvaz Hardiness
Inventory (AHI). To analyze the data, we used correlation and stepwise multiple regression and canonical
correlation ways. It was found there was significant negative correlations between anxiety and psychological
hardiness (0/01> Р), and significant canonical correlation between anxiety and dimensions of difficulties in emotion
regulation with psychological hardiness. And also it was found between anxiety and dimensions of difficulties in
emotion regulation with psychological hardiness, based on the result of stepwise regression analysis, anxiety and
goals in general health were the most effective variables entered to regression equation.(0/01>p). The findings
indicate the importance of anxiety and emotion regulation in maintaining students’ psychological hardiness. Also
these two variables can explain in a high rate the changes of hardiness in different students’ conditions.