The mediating role of emotion regulation in the relationship between personality traits and perfectionism with sleep quality in students

Mahdis darvishi; Touraj Hashemi Nosratabad; Zeinab Khanjani

doi:10.63053/ijhes.143

Authors

Mahdis darvishi M.A. in General Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Touraj Hashemi Nosratabad Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
Zeinab Khanjani Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63053/ijhes.143

Keywords:

Personality Traits, Perfectionism, Sleep Quality, Emotion Regulation

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of determining the mediating role of emotion regulation in the relationship between personality traits and perfectionism with sleep quality in college students. The descriptive-correlational research method used structural equation modeling. The statistical population of the research consisted of all students of Tabriz University in 2022, from which 240 students were selected by cluster random sampling. Data were collected using the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI; Buysse et al., 1989), the Five-Factor Personality Inventory (NEO-FFI; Costa & McCrae, 1989), Tehran’s Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale (Besharat, 2016), and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ; Gross, 2003). The results of structural equation modeling showed that the proposed model had a favorable fit. The results indicated a significant and direct positive relationship between perfectionism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness, and conscientiousness with emotion regulation and sleep quality, while there was a significant negative and direct relationship between neuroticism and emotion regulation and sleep quality (P < 0.01). The results of the bootstrap test revealed that emotion regulation plays a mediating role between personality traits and sleep quality, as well as between perfectionism and sleep quality (P < 0.01). The findings of this study suggest that emotion regulation mediates the relationship between personality traits and sleep quality, as well as between perfectionism and sleep quality.

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