Relationship between Personality and Emotion Dysregulation of Adolescents

Abstract

This research study is to find out the relationship between personality and emotion dysregulation of adolescents. Here the relationship between emotion dysregulation and negative dimensions of personality such as inferiority complex, emotional instability and positive dimensions of personality such as assertiveness, self-control, tolerance, sense of well-being, self-esteem, sense of personal worth, social skills, adaptability and sensitivity are also studied. The sample consisted of adolescents, both boys and girls of the age group of 15-17 years. The total sample size was 80, collected from secondary schools of Manmunai South Eruvil Pattu Education Division of Paddiruppu Education Zone. The purposive sampling method was used to get the samples which were the students in Grade 10 and Grade 11. And it adopted the quantitative research method. DERS (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale) developed by Gratz Roemer (2004) and the Personality inventory for adolescents developed by Anitha Kumary Vidyadharan & Divya Jayan (2011) were used as tools. Pearson correlation coefficient was used for the statistical analysis of the data. The result shows that there is a positive correlation between emotion dysregulation and negative dimensions of personality and there is a negative correlation found between emotion dysregulation and positive dimensions of personality. This study is also an attempt to identify specific emotion regulation and related personality factors with the assumption that early identification of dysregulated emotion may help in the development of healthy individuals.