title: The relations between interpersonal self-support traits and emotion regulation strategies: a longitudinal study.
abstract: Although several cross-sectional surveys have shown that certain traits such as extraversion and neuroticism are related to emotion regulation, few studies have explored the nature of this relationship. The present study tried to explore the longitudinal relation between traits and emotion regulation strategies. The Interpersonal Self-Support Scale for Middle School Students (ISSS-MSS) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) were administrated to 374 middle school students two times across a 6-month interval. A path analysis via structural equation modeling of the five interpersonal self-support traits and the two emotion regulation strategies was tested. The results showed that interpersonal independence predicted expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal, and that interpersonal initiative also predicted reappraisal, while reappraisal predicted interpersonal flexibility and interpersonal openness 6 month later. These results support the hypotheses that some personality traits influence certain emotion regulation strategies, while other traits may be influenced by specific emotion regulation strategies.
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, 400715, China; Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China. Electronic address: xialx@swu.edu.cn.
authors.forename: Ling-Xiang
authors.initials: LX
authors.lastname: Xia
authors.affiliation: Key Laboratory of Cognition and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, 400715, China; Southwest University, Chongqing, 400715, China.
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Qian
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.affiliation: Vanderbilt University, TN, 37240, USA.
authors.forename: Steven D
authors.initials: SD
authors.lastname: Hollon
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D032763:Behavior Control / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D010551:Personality; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Emotion regulation; Interpersonal self-support; Longitudinal study; Middle school students; Personality