The association between the adaptive/maladaptive personality dimensions and emotional regulation

Abstract

This study investigates the associations between the big five personality dimensions, dark personality traits, and the brief form of the Personality Inventory for DSM-5 with Emotion regulation difficulty dimensions. Data was obtained in a sample of normal population (N = 461). Results showed the associations between neuroticism and openness to experience from the big five personality dimensions and emotion regulation difficulty (p >0.01). Machiavellianism and psychopathy from dark traits was associated with emotion regulation difficulty (p >0.01). Negative affectivity, detachment, antagonism, disinhibition, and psychoticism showed positive associations with emotion regulation difficulty (p >0.01). The results of this study expand the understanding of adaptive/mala-daptive personality dimensions and indicate how adaptive and maladaptive personality dimensions could explain emotion regulation difficulty.