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Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance.
Aguirre, Paula; Michelini, Yanina; Bravo, Adrian J; Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos; Pilatti, Angelina.
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  • Aguirre P; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
  • Michelini Y; Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas, IIPsi-CONICET-UNC, Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
  • Bravo AJ; Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
  • Pautassi RM; Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas, IIPsi-CONICET-UNC, Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina.
  • Pilatti A; Department of Psychological Sciences, William & Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America.
PLoS One ; 19(7): e0306146, 2024.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-39024203
ABSTRACT
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.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Ansiedade / Personalidade / Depressão / Regulação Emocional Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: PLoS One Assunto da revista: CIENCIA / MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Argentina País de publicação: Estados Unidos
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Ansiedade / Personalidade / Depressão / Regulação Emocional Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Female / Humans / Male Idioma: En Revista: PLoS One Assunto da revista: CIENCIA / MEDICINA Ano de publicação: 2024 Tipo de documento: Article País de afiliação: Argentina País de publicação: Estados Unidos