Abstract

DEL VALLE, Macarena; ZAMORA, Eliana Vanesa; KHALIL, Yasmin  and  ALTAMIRANO, Macarena. Rasgos de personalidad y dificultades de regulación emocional en estudiantes universitarios. Rev. psicodebate: psicol. cult. soc. [online]. 2020, vol.20, n.1, pp.56-67. ISSN 24516600.

Personality is one of the main psychological constructs due to its explanatory and predictive power over human behavior. Recently many studies have focused on the relationship between personality and the regulation and control of emotions. For this reason, the present study examines the relationships between the five personality traits of the Big Five Factor Model and the difficulties that people may experience when regulating their emotions. A sample of 195 college students from the National University of Mar del Plata was used (84.1% women, 15.9% men). Ages ranged from 18 to 35 years old (M = 22.85; SD = 4.22). Those students who voluntarily agreed to participate in the study completed the adaptation of the Difficulties in Emotional Regulation Scale and the Adjectives Checklist for Personality Assessment. Results indicated that the trait with the greatest explanatory effect on emotional dysregulation was Neuroticism: the greater the presence of the trait, the greater the presence of difficulties in emotion regulation. Likewise, Agreeableness and Extraversion traits also contributed to the variance, although in a smaller way. Conscientiousness and Openness to Experience traits resulted not significant in the regression model for emotion dysregulation. The study is a contribution to the clarification of the relationships between personality and the mechanisms of emotional regulation and dysregulation in college student’s population.

Keywords : Emotion regulation; Personality; Neuroticism; Extraversion; Agreeableness; College students; Personality traits; Big Five Factor Model.

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