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.

中文翻译：

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人格和情绪失调特征预测了各种健康风险行为的差异参与

摘要

客观的

健康风险行为的病因尚不清楚，大学生的参与风险较高。情绪失调和一些人格维度与健康风险行为有关，但这些结构很少被一起研究。此外，尚不清楚不同类型的健康风险行为是否具有不同的病因。

参加者

2077 名大学生完成了一项横断面调查。

方法

潜在概况分析从情绪失调和人格维度辨别参与者的类别。不同班级对自残、自杀、饮食失调、药物滥用和无保护性行为的差异进行了评估。

结果

确定了三类，主要以情绪失调、紧迫感和神经质来区分。随着情绪相关概念的增加，各个班级的健康风险行为普遍增加。自残和自杀表现出与其他健康风险行为不同的模式。

结论

结果阐明了健康风险行为参与的异质性。关注情绪困难对于减少自残和自杀可能比饮食失调、药物滥用和危险性行为更重要。