Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance
Fil: Aguirre, Paula. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina.
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Sohaib Mustafa, Beijing University of Technology, CHINA
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| author | Aguirre, Paula Michelini, Yanina Bravo, Adrian J. Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos Pilatti, Angelina |
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| spelling | rdu-unc.5532362024-08-10T06:40:29Z 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 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4630-6449 Big Five Depression Anxiety Emotional regulation Discomfort tolerance info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fil: Aguirre, Paula. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Aguirre, Paula. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: Michelini, Yanina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Michelini, Yanina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: Bravo, Adrian J. College of William and Mary. Department of Psychological Sciences; United States of America. Fil: Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigación Médica Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra; Argentina. Fil: Pilatti, Angelina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Pilatti, Angelina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. 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. info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Fil: Aguirre, Paula. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Aguirre, Paula. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: Michelini, Yanina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Michelini, Yanina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. Fil: Bravo, Adrian J. College of William and Mary. Department of Psychological Sciences; United States of America. Fil: Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigación Médica Mercedes y Martín Ferreyra; Argentina. Fil: Pilatti, Angelina. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina. Fil: Pilatti, Angelina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas. Instituto de Investigaciones Psicológicas; Argentina. 2024-08-09T19:13:20Z 2024-08-09T19:13:20Z 2024-07-18 article Aguirre P, Michelini Y, Bravo AJ, Pautassi RM, Pilatti A (2024) Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance. PLoS ONE 19(7): e0306146. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0306146 http://hdl.handle.net/11086/553236 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306146 https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WRD4N. eng Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Sohaib Mustafa, Beijing University of Technology, CHINA |
| spellingShingle | Big Five Depression Anxiety Emotional regulation Discomfort tolerance Aguirre, Paula Michelini, Yanina Bravo, Adrian J. Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos Pilatti, Angelina Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance |
| title | Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance |
| title_full | Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance |
| title_fullStr | Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance |
| title_full_unstemmed | Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance |
| title_short | Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance |
| title_sort | association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance |
| topic | Big Five Depression Anxiety Emotional regulation Discomfort tolerance |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/11086/553236 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306146 https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WRD4N. |
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