Personality and emotion dysregulation profiles predict differential engagement in a wide range of health-risk behaviors.
J Am Coll Health
; 71(6): 1740-1752, 2023.
Article
en En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-34243687
ABSTRACT
OBJECTIVE:
Health-risk behaviors have an unclear etiology and college students have elevated risk for engagement. Emotion dysregulation and several personality dimensions have been implicated in health-risk behaviors, but these constructs have rarely been studied together. Further, it is unknown if different types of health-risk behaviors have distinct etiologies.PARTICIPANTS:
2077 college students completed a cross-sectional survey.METHODS:
Latent profile analysis discerned classes of participants from emotion dysregulation and personality dimensions. Differential engagement in self-injury, suicidality, disordered eating, substance misuse, and unprotected sex was evaluated across classes.RESULTS:
Three classes were identified, which were primarily distinguished by emotion dysregulation, urgency, and neuroticism. Health-risk behaviors generally increased across classes with increasing emotion-related constructs. Self-injury and suicidality demonstrated different patterns than other health-risk behaviors.CONCLUSIONS:
Results elucidate heterogeneity in health-risk behavior engagement. Focusing on emotional difficulties may be more important for reducing self-injury and suicidality than disordered eating, substance misuse, and risky sex.
Texto completo:
1
Colección:
01-internacional
Base de datos:
MEDLINE
Tipo de estudio:
Etiology_studies
/
Prognostic_studies
/
Risk_factors_studies
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Am Coll Health
Año:
2023
Tipo del documento:
Article
País de afiliación:
Estados Unidos