Personality and Emotion Regulation Strategies

Abstract

The emotions has many important functions in our life such as in relation of interpersonal communication, and health. In interpersonal communicative function aimed to signal to other information about internal state. Emotions manifests in specific cognitive, behavioural, and physiological reactions, thus closely related to health. There is wide variety of ways for individuals to regulate their emotion. In this regard, there are two kinds of emotion regulation strategy; first Antecedent-focused emotion regulation consisting of situation selection, situation modification, attentional deployment, cognitive change and second, Response-focused emotion regulation consisting of suppression. The purpose of this research is to investigate personality factors relate with emotion regulation strategies. 339 students from Faculty of Psychology, Universitas Gadjah Mada were participating in this study and given The Big Five Personality Factors (Ramdhani, 2012, adaptation), and the modified version of the Emotion Regulation Scale was used, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (John & Gross, 2004) which measure personality and emotion regulation respectively. Using multiple regression analysis, the study indicated that personality predicts emotion regulation strategies. ResumenLas emociones tienen muchas funciones importantes en nuestra vida, como en relación de comunicación interpersonal y salud. En la función comunicativa interpersonal se pretende señalar a otros, información sobre estados internos. Las emociones se manifiestan en reacciones cognitivas, conductuales y fisiológicas específicas, por tanto estrechamente relacionadas con la salud. Hay una gran variedad de formas para que los individuos regulen su emoción; en este sentido, hay dos tipos de estrategia de regulación emocional. La primera, regulación de la emoción centrada en los antecedentes: consistente en la selección de la situación, la modificación de la situación, el despliegue atencional y el cambio cognitivo. La segunda, la regulación de la emoción centrada en la respuesta consistenteúnicamente en la supresión. El propósito de esta investigación es investigar los factores de personalidad que se relacionan con las estrategias de regulación emocional. 339 estudiantes de la Facultad de Psicología de la Universidad de Gadjah Mada participaron en este estudio y se les administró la escala de los cinco gran factores de personalidad (adaptación de Ramdhani, 2012) y la versión modificada de la escala de regulación emocional, el cuestionario de regulación emocional (John & Gross, 2004) que miden la regulación de la personalidad y la emoción respectivamente. El estudio indicó que la personalidad predice las estrategias de regulación de la emoción usando el análisis de regresión múltiple.

For Body and Mind: Practicing Yoga and Emotion Regulation

“…Neuroticism, among the Big Five traits, has the strongest connection with emotion regulation abilities (Gross & John, 2003), as it is the trait that is most directly related to the emotional sphere. Moreover, neuroticism seems to be positively related with the use of ineffective ways of regulating emotions (Gross & John, 2003;Purnamaningsih, 2017;Wang, Shi, & Li, 2009). Also, in our study, we obtained a negative significant correlation between neuroticism and using reappraisal and a positive significant correlation between neuroticism and using suppression.…”

The mediational role of emotion regulation in the relationship between personality and subjective well-being

“…Extraversion has been found to correlate mainly with low suppression (John and Gross 2004;Purnamaningsih 2017;Wang et al 2009). This result seems to be consistent with the definition of extraversion, which implies that extraverts do not hide emotions and easily express their feelings (Eysenck 1967).…”

“…As for Big Five personality traits and emotion regulation, findings seem consistent across studies. Specifically, neuroticism was shown to be negatively correlated with reappraisal (Gross and John 2003;Purnamaningsih 2017;Wang et al 2009). John and Gross (2004) have suggested that emotionally stable individuals (those who were low in neuroticism) experience less negative affect and as a result do not have to deal with consequences of strong negative affect.…”

“…To date, only a few investigations have explored the relationship between personality and emotion regulation in nonclinical populations (John and Gross 2004;Purnamaningsih 2017;Wang et al 2009). However, quite a number of studies looked into the link between emotion regulation and personality disorders.…”

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“…At the same time, personality has been studied as a structural dimension of the psychology of the individual (Matthews, 2016;Linden, Dunkel, & Petrides, 2016;Revelle, 2016) and emotions are understood as a set of events that arise at the level of psychological description constituted by neurobiological processes, with holistic empirical approach (Barrett, Mesquita, Ochsner, & Gross, 2007;LeDoux, Phelps, & Alberini, 2016;Purnamaningsih, 2017;LeDoux & Brown, 2017) that are related to SA, perception, cognition and personality (Pessoa, 2018), which should be approached comprehensively (Cowen & Keltner, 2017) in the interaction with the school context in which the student develops (Scott-Parker, 2017) and the way in which together with the Personality modulates attention (Mogg & Bradley, 1999).…”