The Role of Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Cognitive Avoidance in Predicting Positive and Negative Emotions

Introduction: This study aims to study the role of personality traits, Alexithymia, and cognitive avoidance on positive and negative emotions.Method: The method of this research was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population includes all Bachelor students of Zanjan University aged 18-...

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Main Authors: Loghman Ebrahimi, Majid Almasi
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Published: Shahed University 2023-05-01
Series:روانشناسی بالینی و شخصیت
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Online Access:https://cpap.shahed.ac.ir/article_4010_e5e8cc9b53252468f5db0b4f566d5aaf.pdf
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description Introduction: This study aims to study the role of personality traits, Alexithymia, and cognitive avoidance on positive and negative emotions.Method: The method of this research was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population includes all Bachelor students of Zanjan University aged 18-25 in the academic year 2018-2019. 220 people were selected as a statistical sample by the available sampling method. Using the Big Five Factors Questionnaire (McCreery and Costa, 1985), Toronto Emotional Dysfunction Scale (Bagby, Parker Taylor, 1994), Cognitive Avoidance Scale (Sexton and Dagas Ria, 2004), and positive and negative emotion scales (Watson, Clark and Telgen, 1989) were collected. Findings were analyzed using Pearson correlation and stepwise regression.Result: The results showed that neuroticism, difficulty in identifying feelings, difficulty in describing feelings, suppression of thought, substitution of thought, distraction, avoidance, and transformation of thought into thought have a positive and meaningful relationship. Extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness have a negative and significant relationship with negative emotion. In addition, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and avoidance have a positive and meaningful relationship. Also, there is neuroticism, difficulty in identifying the feeling, and difficulty in describing the feeling of negative and meaningful relationship with positive emotion.Discussion and conclusion: The results showed that personality traits, alexithymia, and cognitive avoidance are effective in positive and negative emotions. Based on the findings, it can be said that different personalities and people with alexithymia and cognitive avoidance experience different emotions to an unequal degree.
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spelling doaj.art-637a32ba14bc42888ba87b6551c0c0262023-07-16T07:14:36ZfasShahed Universityروانشناسی بالینی و شخصیت2345-21882345-47842023-05-01211435610.22070/cpap.2023.15081.11374010The Role of Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Cognitive Avoidance in Predicting Positive and Negative EmotionsLoghman Ebrahimi0Majid Almasi1Associate Professor Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zanjan , Zanjan, Iran.Master Student, General Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, University of Zanjan, Zanjan, Iran.Introduction: This study aims to study the role of personality traits, Alexithymia, and cognitive avoidance on positive and negative emotions.Method: The method of this research was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population includes all Bachelor students of Zanjan University aged 18-25 in the academic year 2018-2019. 220 people were selected as a statistical sample by the available sampling method. Using the Big Five Factors Questionnaire (McCreery and Costa, 1985), Toronto Emotional Dysfunction Scale (Bagby, Parker Taylor, 1994), Cognitive Avoidance Scale (Sexton and Dagas Ria, 2004), and positive and negative emotion scales (Watson, Clark and Telgen, 1989) were collected. Findings were analyzed using Pearson correlation and stepwise regression.Result: The results showed that neuroticism, difficulty in identifying feelings, difficulty in describing feelings, suppression of thought, substitution of thought, distraction, avoidance, and transformation of thought into thought have a positive and meaningful relationship. Extroversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness have a negative and significant relationship with negative emotion. In addition, extroversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and avoidance have a positive and meaningful relationship. Also, there is neuroticism, difficulty in identifying the feeling, and difficulty in describing the feeling of negative and meaningful relationship with positive emotion.Discussion and conclusion: The results showed that personality traits, alexithymia, and cognitive avoidance are effective in positive and negative emotions. Based on the findings, it can be said that different personalities and people with alexithymia and cognitive avoidance experience different emotions to an unequal degree.https://cpap.shahed.ac.ir/article_4010_e5e8cc9b53252468f5db0b4f566d5aaf.pdfpersonality traitsalexithymiacognitive avoidancepositive and negative emotion
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The Role of Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Cognitive Avoidance in Predicting Positive and Negative Emotions
روانشناسی بالینی و شخصیت
personality traits
alexithymia
cognitive avoidance
positive and negative emotion
title The Role of Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Cognitive Avoidance in Predicting Positive and Negative Emotions
title_full The Role of Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Cognitive Avoidance in Predicting Positive and Negative Emotions
title_fullStr The Role of Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Cognitive Avoidance in Predicting Positive and Negative Emotions
title_full_unstemmed The Role of Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Cognitive Avoidance in Predicting Positive and Negative Emotions
title_short The Role of Personality Traits, Alexithymia, and Cognitive Avoidance in Predicting Positive and Negative Emotions
title_sort role of personality traits alexithymia and cognitive avoidance in predicting positive and negative emotions
topic personality traits
alexithymia
cognitive avoidance
positive and negative emotion
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