Abstract:
This research study is to find out the relationship between personality and emotion
dysregulation of adolescents. Here the relationship between emotion dysregulation
and negative dimensions of personality such as inferiority complex, emotional
instability and positive dimensions of personality such as assertiveness, self-control,
tolerance, sense of well-being, self-esteem, sense of personal worth, social skills,
adaptability and sensitivity are also studied. The sample consisted of adolescents,
both boys and girls of the age group of 15-17 years. The total sample size was 80,
collected from secondary schools of Manmunai South Eruvil Pattu Education
Division of Paddiruppu Education Zone. The purposive sampling method was used
to get the samples which were the students in Grade 10 and Grade 11. And it adopted
the quantitative research method. DERS (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale)
developed by Gratz Roemer (2004) and the Personality inventory for adolescents
developed by Anitha Kumary Vidyadharan & Divya Jayan (2011) were used as
tools. Pearson correlation coefficient was used for the statistical analysis of the data.
The result shows that there is a positive correlation between emotion dysregulation
and negative dimensions of personality and there is a negative correlation found
between emotion dysregulation and positive dimensions of personality. This study is
also an attempt to identify specific emotion regulation and related personality factors
with the assumption that early identification of dysregulated emotion may help in the
development of healthy individuals.
