Prediction of Insomnia disorder based on the components of Neuroticism and Perfectionism through mediation of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Anxiety

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1 PhD Student, Department of Psychology, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

2 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Lorestan University, Khorram, Abad, Iran

Abstract

Objectives: The critical role of psychological processes in cause and / or maintenance of insomnia has received considerable attention over the recent decades. The aim of this study modeling the relationship between personality traits and insomnia considering the mediating role of the mediating role of emotional processes among medical sciences students.
Methods: The study sample consisted of 381 female and male students of Lorestan University of Medical Sciences who were selected by cluster sampling. Participants answered the Insomnia severity Index , NEO-Personality Inventory – Revised (NEO-FF-R), Frost Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale, State-Trait Anxiety Inventory AND Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire . Then the obtained data were analyzed by Structural Equation Modeling (SEM).
Results: results indicated that neuroticism has a direct significant relationship with insomnia, also both neuroticism and Perfectionism have indirect significant relationship with insomnia through the mediating role of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and anxiety , as well as through the chained mediating effect of emotion regulation to anxiety, but direct effect of Perfectionism on insomnia was not significant.
Conclusion: The obtained results showed that The use of maladaptive strategies for emotion regulation and anxiety can partly explain the association between personality traits and insomnia.

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  • Receive Date: 05 February 2020
  • Revise Date: 26 January 2021
  • Accept Date: 04 November 2020

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