Personality Traits, Emotion Regulation and Coping Strategies among Adult Females: A Correlational Study

Abstract

There is a long list of researches upon these variables and their relationship. But there have been fewer studies using the HEXACO model of personality. Since it is true that personality traits make up for individual differences which in turn influences the individual’s usage of various emotion regulation and coping strategies. Emotion regulation and coping have been doubted to have overlap but their independency has also been shown. Therefore, it will be helpful to understand the relationship between these variables. This study aims to take the HEXACO model and find its relationship with emotion regulation and coping strategies. It is also aimed to understand the relationship between emotion regulation and coping strategies. The sample for this study consisted of 104 females whose age ranged from 18-30. Three questionnaires–HEXACO-60 (Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, and Openness to Experience), Brief COPE (Problem-Focused, Emotion-Focused, and Avoidant coping strategies), and ERQ-S (Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression) – were used to collect the data. Correlation was implemented to find out the relationship between these variables. Through this analysis it was found that the emotion regulation variable, expressive suppression was not correlated with any of the personality variables. On the other hand, cognitive reappraisal was found to have correlations with personality variables honesty-humility, emotionality, extraversion, and agreeableness. The coping variable, avoidant coping strategies, was correlated with only honesty-humility. While the problem-focused variable, was correlated with honesty-humility, emotionality, agreeableness, and conscientiousness. Emotion-focused variable was not found to be correlated with any of the personality variables.