Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance

Autores
Aguirre, Paula; Michelini, Yanina; Bravo, Adrian J.; Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos; Pilatti, Angelina
Año de publicación
2024
Idioma
inglés
Tipo de recurso
artículo
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versión publicada
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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.
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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.
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Depression
Anxiety
Emotional regulation
Discomfort tolerance
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spelling Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress toleranceAguirre, PaulaMichelini, YaninaBravo, Adrian J.Pautassi, Ricardo MarcosPilatti, AngelinaBig FiveDepressionAnxietyEmotional regulationDiscomfort toleranceFil: 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/publishedVersionFil: 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.Sohaib Mustafa, Beijing University of Technology, CHINAhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-4630-64492024-07-18info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501info:ar-repo/semantics/articuloapplication/pdfAguirre 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.0306146http://hdl.handle.net/11086/553236https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0306146https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/WRD4N.enginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositorio Digital Universitario (UNC)instname:Universidad Nacional de Córdobainstacron:UNC2025-09-29T13:41:35Zoai:rdu.unc.edu.ar:11086/553236Institucionalhttps://rdu.unc.edu.ar/Universidad públicaNo correspondehttp://rdu.unc.edu.ar/oai/snrdoca.unc@gmail.comArgentinaNo correspondeNo correspondeNo correspondeopendoar:25722025-09-29 13:41:35.227Repositorio Digital Universitario (UNC) - Universidad Nacional de Córdobafalse
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv 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
spellingShingle Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance
Aguirre, Paula
Big Five
Depression
Anxiety
Emotional regulation
Discomfort tolerance
title_short 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_sort Association between personality traits and symptoms of depression and anxiety via emotional regulation and distress tolerance
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Aguirre, Paula
Michelini, Yanina
Bravo, Adrian J.
Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos
Pilatti, Angelina
author Aguirre, Paula
author_facet Aguirre, Paula
Michelini, Yanina
Bravo, Adrian J.
Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos
Pilatti, Angelina
author_role author
author2 Michelini, Yanina
Bravo, Adrian J.
Pautassi, Ricardo Marcos
Pilatti, Angelina
author2_role author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4630-6449
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Big Five
Depression
Anxiety
Emotional regulation
Discomfort tolerance
topic Big Five
Depression
Anxiety
Emotional regulation
Discomfort tolerance
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv 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.
description Fil: Aguirre, Paula. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Psicología; Argentina.
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