Effect of personality on adolescents' emotion regulation

Abstract

Objective To explore the effect of adolescents’ personality on emotion regulation. Methods 1073 adolescents were surveyed by adolescents’ personality scale and emotion regulation scale. Results positive emotion regulation strategies were positively correlated with openness, agreeable, extraversion and conscientiousness(r=0.359~0.455, P<0.01), and were negatively correlated with neuroticism(r=-0.266, P<0.01); negative emotion regulation strategies were negatively correlated with openness, agreeable, extraversion and conscientiousness(r=-0.117~-0.318, P<0.01), and were positively correlated with neuroticism(r=0.621, P<0.01); emotion regulation competence were positively correlated with openness, agreeable, extraversion and conscientiousness(r=0.402~0.498, P<0.01), and were negatively correlated with neuroticism(r=-0.466, P<0.01). Hierarchical regression analysis showed that cognitive reappraisal, positive refocusing, behavior diverting, rumination, self-suppressing and attacking others had an indirect effect between personality and emotion regulation competence(P<0.01). Conclusion Adolescents’ personality and emotion regulation strategies have effect on emotion regulation competence. Key words: Personality; Adolescent; Emotion regulation