Examining the Associations between Dysfunction in Emotion Regulation and Pathological Personality Traits

Background and Aims: Temperament is determined as a relatively constant, basic, and innate position that underlies and modifies the expression of activity, emotionality, and sociability among people. The current study aimed to investigate the prediction of dark personality traits and self-destruction based on emotion regulation among adolescent females. Materials and Methods: This correlational study included 250 adolescent females using a cluster sampling method in the academic year of 2018-19 in Shiraz, Iran. The participants were asked to complete Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, Dark Triad Scale, and Chronic Self-Destructiveness Scale. Results: The results of the regression analysis showed that emotion regulation with beta coefficients was able to predict significant and positive dark personality traits (0.25), narcissism (0.49), Machiavellianism (0.39), psychopathy (0.32), sadism (0.35), and self-destructiveness (0.49) (P<0.05). Conclusion: Directly targeted interventions to regulate emotion may be useful in addressing risky behaviors of adolescents with self-destructive and dark personality traits.

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Differences between Positive Affect Intensity and Negative Affect Intensity : Focused on the Personality Traits and Emotion Regulation Strategies

THE KOREAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY GENERAL ◽

10.22257/kjp.2018.09.37.3.411 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 37 (3) ◽

pp. 411-439

Author(s):

Ji-Young Lee ◽

Eunha Kim

Keyword(s):

Emotion Regulation ◽

Negative Affect ◽

Positive Affect ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Affect Intensity ◽

Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽

Regulation Strategies

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Problematic Smartphone Use Severity: Behavioral Addiction, Psychiatric Symptoms, and Pathological Personality Traits

Review of Contemporary Philosophy ◽

10.22381/rcp1920206 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 19 (0) ◽

pp. 64

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Psychiatric Symptoms ◽

Behavioral Addiction ◽

Problematic Smartphone Use ◽

Smartphone Use ◽

Pathological Personality Traits

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Childhood trauma moderates morphometric associations between orbitofrontal cortex and amygdala: implications for pathological personality traits

Psychological Medicine ◽

10.1017/s0033291720004468 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-10

Author(s):

Nadia Bounoua ◽

Rickie Miglin ◽

Jeffrey M. Spielberg ◽

Curtis L. Johnson ◽

Naomi Sadeh

Keyword(s):

Personality Traits ◽

Childhood Trauma ◽

Orbitofrontal Cortex ◽

Functional Neuroimaging ◽

Trauma Exposure ◽

Diagnostic Interview ◽

Emotional Dysregulation ◽

Self Report ◽

Traumatic Experiences ◽

Pathological Personality Traits

Abstract Background Research has demonstrated that chronic stress exposure early in development can lead to detrimental alterations in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)–amygdala circuit. However, the majority of this research uses functional neuroimaging methods, and thus the extent to which childhood trauma corresponds to morphometric alterations in this limbic-cortical network has not yet been investigated. This study had two primary objectives: (i) to test whether anatomical associations between OFC–amygdala differed between adults as a function of exposure to chronic childhood assaultive trauma and (ii) to test how these environment-by-neurobiological effects relate to pathological personality traits. Methods Participants were 137 ethnically diverse adults (48.1% female) recruited from the community who completed a clinical diagnostic interview, a self-report measure of pathological personality traits, and anatomical MRI scans. Results Findings revealed that childhood trauma moderated bilateral OFC–amygdala volumetric associations. Specifically, adults with childhood trauma exposure showed a positive association between medial OFC volume and amygdalar volume, whereas adults with no childhood exposure showed the negative OFC–amygdala structural association observed in prior research with healthy samples. Examination of the translational relevance of trauma-related alterations in OFC–amygdala volumetric associations for disordered personality traits revealed that trauma exposure moderated the association of OFC volume with antagonistic and disinhibited phenotypes, traits characteristic of Cluster B personality disorders. Conclusions The OFC–amygdala circuit is a potential anatomical pathway through which early traumatic experiences perpetuate emotional dysregulation into adulthood and confer risk for personality pathology. Results provide novel evidence of divergent neuroanatomical pathways to similar personality phenotypes depending on early trauma exposure.

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A Simultaneous Cluster Analysis of Cognitive, Emotional, and Personality Factors and Insomnia and Sleep Quality Among Earthquake Victims

Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness ◽

10.1017/dmp.2018.156 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 13 (4) ◽

pp. 745-752 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Habibolah Khazaie ◽

Ali Zakiei ◽

Saeid Komasi

Keyword(s):

Cluster Analysis ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Sleep Quality ◽

Personality Traits ◽

Experiential Avoidance ◽

Dysfunctional Attitudes ◽

Personality Factors ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Mean Values ◽

Significant Difference

ABSTRACTObjectiveThe current study compares the measures of sleep quality and intensity of insomnia based on the clustering analysis of variables including dysfunctional beliefs and attitudes about sleep, experiential avoidance, personality traits of neuroticism, and complications with emotion regulation among the individuals struck by an earthquake in Kermanshah Province.MethodsThis study is a cross-sectional study that was carried out among earthquake victims of Kermanshah Province (western Iran) in 2017. Data were gathered starting 10 days after the earthquake and lasted for 2 weeks; of 1,200 standard questionnaires distributed, 1,001 responses were received, and the analysis was performed using 999 participants. The data analysis was carried out using a cluster analysis (K-mean method).ResultsTwo clusters were identified, and there is a significant difference between these two clusters in regard to all of the variables. The cluster with higher mean values for the selected variables shows a higher intensity of insomnia and a lower sleep quality.ConclusionsConsidering the current results, it can be concluded that variables of dysfunctional attitudes and beliefs about sleep, experiential avoidance, the personality traits of neuroticism, and complications with emotion regulation are able to identify the clusters where there is a significant difference in regard to sleep quality and the intensity of insomnia. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:745–752)

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