From neuroticism to anxiety: Examining unique contributions of three transdiagnostic vulnerability factors

Paulus, Daniel J.; Vanwoerden, Salome; Norton, Peter J.; Sharp, Carla

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.01.012

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“…These reactions to shame have a tendency to exacerbate one's conditions. Shame plays a key role in the formation of depression [11] and is significantly correlated with neuroticism [12]. Further, evidence indicates that shame mediates the association between neuroticism and anxiety in an adolescent sample [13].…”

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The Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility, Shame and Emotion Dysregulation Between Neuroticism and Depression

Zarei

Momeni

Mohammadkhani

2018

IRJ

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Objectives:Cognitive flexibility, shame, and emotion regulation difficulties are considered potential mediating factors that may explain the relationship between neuroticism and depression severity. The aim of this study was to examine the mediating role of cognitive flexibility, shame and emotion dysregulation in the relationship between neuroticism and depression among university students.Methods: A total of 271 students (102 males and 169 females) were selected by cluster random sampling from University of Tehran, Allameh Tabataba'i University, and Iran University of Science & Technology. Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), Test of Self-Conscious Affect-2 (TOSCA-2), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), NEO Five-Factor Inventory, and Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II) were used to collect the data. Pearson correlation, multiple regression, and path analysis were applied for data analysis.Results: It was found that neuroticism was significantly associated with depression and all three mediators (P<0.0001). Neuroticism by means of emotion dysregulation was the only significant indirect effect on depression (P<0.0001). First total mediation model had a poor fit to the data, CMIN=87, P<0.0001, CMIN/df=21.75, CFI=82, RMSEA=28.Discussion: These findings suggest that for student depression, emotion dysregulation might be important and future intervention works can examine the effects of targeting emotion dysregulation among university students with high levels of neuroticism and/or depression.

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The Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility, Shame and Emotion Dysregulation Between Neuroticism and Depression

Zarei

Momeni

Mohammadkhani

2018

IRJ

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“…That is, positive correlations have been documented with thought suppression (Wegner 1989 ), which is a cognitive manifestation of the process of experiential avoidance, whereas negative correlations have been found with mindfulness (Bishop et al 2004 ), which can be regarded as antithetical to cognitive fusion (see Greco et al 2008 ). In addition, the AFQ-Y has also been shown to correlate positively with measures of psychopathological symptoms (Greco et al 2008 ; Feinstein et al 2011 ; Fergus et al 2012 ; Livheim et al 2016 ; Paulus et al 2016 ; Simon and Verboon 2016 ; Valdivia-Salas et al in press ; Venta et al 2012 ), although it should be noted that most of this research focused on the relation between psychological inflexibility and internalizing (emotional) symptoms.…”

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Inflexible Youngsters: Psychological and Psychopathological Correlates of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youths in Nonclinical Dutch Adolescents

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The present study examined psychological and psychopathological correlates of psychological inflexibility as measured by the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youth (AFQ-Y) in two independent samples of nonclinical Dutch adolescents aged between 12 and 18 years (Ns being 184 and 157). Participants completed a survey containing the AFQ-Y and scales assessing mindfulness, thought suppression, self-compassion, self-worth, self-efficacy, and internalizing/externalizing symptoms. In both samples, the AFQ-Y was found to be a reliable measure of psychological inflexibility that correlated in a theoretically meaningful way with other psychological constructs. Most importantly, AFQ-Y scores correlated positively with internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and in most cases, these associations remained significant when controlling for other measures. These findings suggest that psychological inflexibility is an important factor in youth psychopathology that needs to be further investigated in future research.

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“…The finding that neuroticism predicts perceived barriers to meditation offers an explanation for previous evidence that neuroticism predicts noncompliance with meditation (Delmonte, 1980;Delmonte, 1988;Dobkin et al, 2012). Since neuroticism has frequently been found to correlate with the presence of mood disorders (Paulus et al, 2016;Newby et al, 2017), the most common reason for referral to university counseling services (Center for Collegiate Mental Health, 2017), this raises an obvious difficulty with meditation as a treatment for these conditions. Those clients who need the intervention most are likely to perceive more barriers to doing it.…”

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“…Neuroticism is a personality trait that is known to be correlated with the presence of mood disorders such as anxiety and depression (Paulus, Vanwoerden, Norton, & Sharp, 2016;Newby et al, 2017), for which meditation is frequently used as a clinical treatment (Cavanagh et al, 2014;Eisendrath et al, 2010;Peit, 2011;Kenny & Williams, 2005;Klainin-Yobas et al, 2011;Manicavasgar e al., 2010). It has long been noted that neuroticism predicts compliance in studies of meditation.…”

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Perceived Barriers to Meditation Among College Students: The Role of Personality Traits

Whitford

Warren

2019

BHAC

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Background: Meditation is likely to be a useful intervention for anxiety and depression, and is increasingly common as a clinical intervention and informal practice among university students. However, meditation dropout rates are high, and it is likely that perceived barriers to meditation play a role. While neuroticism is known to predict dropout, there has been no study relating personality traits to these barriers.Aim: To better understand the barriers to meditation practice that university students experience.Methods: We used online survey data to analyze the relationship between personality traits, whether students practice meditation, time spent on academic and other work, and university students’ perception of barriers to meditation.Results: We found a nonlinear relationship between neuroticism and perceived barriers; the number of perceived barriers increased with increased neuroticism but eventually flattened out. Participants who meditate perceive more barriers than those who do not. We found no relationship between time spent in other activities and perception of barriers.Conclusions: Those students who would benefit most from meditation may have the most trouble continuing. Clinicians applying meditation as an intervention in a university setting should be ready to work with students on barriers to practice.

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From neuroticism to anxiety: Examining unique contributions of three transdiagnostic vulnerability factors

Cited by 64 publications

References 34 publications

The Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility, Shame and Emotion Dysregulation Between Neuroticism and Depression

The Mediating Role of Cognitive Flexibility, Shame and Emotion Dysregulation Between Neuroticism and Depression

Inflexible Youngsters: Psychological and Psychopathological Correlates of the Avoidance and Fusion Questionnaire for Youths in Nonclinical Dutch Adolescents

Perceived Barriers to Meditation Among College Students: The Role of Personality Traits

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