Emotional Regulation Difficulties in High-Neuroticism Individuals and Their Relationship with Physical Health and Social Interaction
Abstract
Neuroticism is one of the "Big Five personality traits". Its characteristic is the frequent experience of negative emotions such as anxiety and unease, and a high sensitivity to stress. Emotional regulation difficulties such as frequent avoidance and excessive self-blame probably play a mediating role, but existing studies mostly rely on questionnaires. This study selected data from approximately 140 posts on Chinese social media and papers related to neuroticism to examine how highly neurotic individuals express their emotions, health concerns, and social problems in natural situations. The data will be screened through keywords related to anxiety, insomnia, self-blame etc, and encoded with neurotic traits, emotion regulation strategies, or health or interpersonal outcomes. Using demographic information as the control variable, through the statistics and analysis of the data, we examined the potential mediating role of emotion regulation. The predicted results show that people with high neuroticism are slightly more frequently with difficulties in emotional regulation and health or social problems, emphasizing the importance of emotional regulation as an intervention target.
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