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Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance
Aguirre, Paula; Michelini, Yanina Noelia
; Bravo, Adrian J.; Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos
; Pilatti, Angelina
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Fecha de publicación:
07/2024
Editorial:
Public Library of Science
Revista:
Plos One
ISSN:
1932-6203
Idioma:
Inglés
Tipo de recurso:
Artículo publicado
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Resumen
The Big Five personality traits have shown associations with symptoms of depression and anxiety among college students, but it is unclear which factors mediate these relationships. Past research suggests that psychological distress is closely related to difficulties in affect regulation (e.g., low distress tolerance). Therefore, the present study examined the associations between personality traits and depression and anxiety via emotion regulation and distress tolerance. Participants were 694 (81.4% females; Mean age = 23.12 [SD 2.75]) Argentinian college students who completed an online survey examining mental health and personality variables. A sizeable percentage of students endorsed moderate to severe symptoms of depression (45.1%) or anxiety (25.9%). Utilizing path analyses, we found that appraisal, a dimension of distress tolerance, atemporally mediated the association between emotional stability and symptoms of depression/anxiety (i.e., higher levels of emotional stability → higher appraisal distress tolerance → fewer symptoms of depression/anxiety). Further, expressive suppression (a dimension of emotion regulation) significantly mediated the associations between personality traits (i.e., agreeableness and extraversion) and symptoms of depression (higher levels of agreeableness/extraversion → lower use of expressive suppression → fewer symptoms of depression). Taken together, the results suggest that higher levels of emotional stability, extraversion and agreeableness could protect students from the development of symptoms of depression/anxiety via lower maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and higher distress tolerance (particularly appraisal). These findings highlight the relevance of intervention strategies specifically tailored to improve distress tolerance and emotion regulation for those students undergoing mental health problems.
Palabras clave:
Personality
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Emotion
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Regulation
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Mental health
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Articulos (IIPSI)
Articulos de INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES PSICOLOGICAS
Articulos de INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES PSICOLOGICAS
Articulos(INIMEC - CONICET)
Articulos de INSTITUTO DE INV. MEDICAS MERCEDES Y MARTIN FERREYRA
Articulos de INSTITUTO DE INV. MEDICAS MERCEDES Y MARTIN FERREYRA
Citación
Aguirre, Paula; Michelini, Yanina Noelia; Bravo, Adrian J.; Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos; Pilatti, Angelina; Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance; Public Library of Science; Plos One; 19; 7; 7-2024; 1-19
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