The Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Forecasting, and Personal Values in Predicting Fear of Loneliness among University Students with Dependent Personality Disorder Traits

Babai, Haniyeh; Shaker Dioulagh, Ali

doi:10.22034/rip.2025.544568.1109

The Role of Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Forecasting, and Personal Values in Predicting Fear of Loneliness among University Students with Dependent Personality Disorder Traits

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Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Haniyeh Babai ¹

Ali Shaker Dioulagh ²

¹ MSc. in General Psychology, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia , Iran

² Associate Professor, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran

10.22034/rip.2025.544568.1109

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the role of emotion regulation difficulties, forecasting, and personal values in predicting the fear of loneliness among university students with dependent personality disorder traits. A sample of 135 students from Islamic Azad University, Urmia Branch, who were identified as having dependent personality disorder traits based on the Dependent Personality Inventory-Revised (DPI-R), was selected via convenience sampling. Data were collected using the Student Loneliness Feeling Scale (SLFS), the Schwartz Value Survey (SVS), the Future-Orientation Questionnaire (FOQ), and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS). The results indicated a significant positive correlation between fear of loneliness and emotion regulation difficulties (p < .05), and significant negative correlations between fear of loneliness and both forecasting and personal values (p < .05). Regression analysis further revealed that emotion regulation difficulties, forecasting, and personal values collectively accounted for 68% of the variance in predicting fear of loneliness. Forecasting was found to have a greater share in predicting the criterion variable. The findings of this study suggest that forecasting, personal values, and emotion regulation difficulties have a significant impact on the fear of loneliness in students with dependent personality disorder traits.

Keywords

dependent personality

emotion regulation

loneliness

personal values

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