{"title":"人格特质塑造了个体的思想控制策略:来自行为和神经成像测量的证据","authors":"Liang Shi","doi":"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113450","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The employment of diverse strategies to control unwanted thoughts has important implications for an individual's mental health and psychological well-being, yet how personality traits influence one's selection of thought control strategy (TCS) remains poorly understood, particularly in terms of their neural underpinnings. Leveraging behavioral path analysis and resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the present study examined the relationship between the Big five personality traits and TCSs in a large cohort of healthy college students. Behavior results revealed that individuals with different personality traits used distinct TCSs: neuroticism was associated with worry, punishment, and reappraisal strategies; extraversion was linked to distraction and social control strategies; openness was related to punishment and reappraisal strategies; agreeableness was associated with distraction and worry strategies; and conscientiousness was linked to distraction, worry, and reappraisal strategies. fMRI results further demonstrated that these TCSs were correlated with specific patterns of brain activity. Specifically, punishment was positively correlated with the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) of the bilateral inferior parietal lobe (IPL) and right middle frontal gyrus (MFG), which are involved in the self-referential processing and inhibitory control. Whereas reappraisal was positively correlated with the fALFF of the bilateral superior parietal lobe (SPL) and left superior temporal gyrus (STG), which are involved in the goal-directed attention and semantic processing. Moreover, the fALFF of these TCSs-related regions was also associated with different personality traits. While punishment was positively correlated with the fALFF of bilateral IPL and right MFG, reappraisal was positively correlated with the fALFF of bilateral SPL and left STG. Collectively, these findings offer profound insights into how personality traits shape individuals' TCSs and their neural foundations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48467,"journal":{"name":"Personality and Individual Differences","volume":"247 ","pages":"Article 113450"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":"{\"title\":\"Personality traits shape individuals' thought control strategies: evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging measures\",\"authors\":\"Liang Shi\",\"doi\":\"10.1016/j.paid.2025.113450\",\"DOIUrl\":null,\"url\":null,\"abstract\":\"<div><div>The employment of diverse strategies to control unwanted thoughts has important implications for an individual's mental health and psychological well-being, yet how personality traits influence one's selection of thought control strategy (TCS) remains poorly understood, particularly in terms of their neural underpinnings. Leveraging behavioral path analysis and resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the present study examined the relationship between the Big five personality traits and TCSs in a large cohort of healthy college students. Behavior results revealed that individuals with different personality traits used distinct TCSs: neuroticism was associated with worry, punishment, and reappraisal strategies; extraversion was linked to distraction and social control strategies; openness was related to punishment and reappraisal strategies; agreeableness was associated with distraction and worry strategies; and conscientiousness was linked to distraction, worry, and reappraisal strategies. fMRI results further demonstrated that these TCSs were correlated with specific patterns of brain activity. Specifically, punishment was positively correlated with the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) of the bilateral inferior parietal lobe (IPL) and right middle frontal gyrus (MFG), which are involved in the self-referential processing and inhibitory control. Whereas reappraisal was positively correlated with the fALFF of the bilateral superior parietal lobe (SPL) and left superior temporal gyrus (STG), which are involved in the goal-directed attention and semantic processing. Moreover, the fALFF of these TCSs-related regions was also associated with different personality traits. While punishment was positively correlated with the fALFF of bilateral IPL and right MFG, reappraisal was positively correlated with the fALFF of bilateral SPL and left STG. 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Personality traits shape individuals' thought control strategies: evidence from behavioral and neuroimaging measures
The employment of diverse strategies to control unwanted thoughts has important implications for an individual's mental health and psychological well-being, yet how personality traits influence one's selection of thought control strategy (TCS) remains poorly understood, particularly in terms of their neural underpinnings. Leveraging behavioral path analysis and resting-state functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), the present study examined the relationship between the Big five personality traits and TCSs in a large cohort of healthy college students. Behavior results revealed that individuals with different personality traits used distinct TCSs: neuroticism was associated with worry, punishment, and reappraisal strategies; extraversion was linked to distraction and social control strategies; openness was related to punishment and reappraisal strategies; agreeableness was associated with distraction and worry strategies; and conscientiousness was linked to distraction, worry, and reappraisal strategies. fMRI results further demonstrated that these TCSs were correlated with specific patterns of brain activity. Specifically, punishment was positively correlated with the fractional amplitude of low-frequency fluctuation (fALFF) of the bilateral inferior parietal lobe (IPL) and right middle frontal gyrus (MFG), which are involved in the self-referential processing and inhibitory control. Whereas reappraisal was positively correlated with the fALFF of the bilateral superior parietal lobe (SPL) and left superior temporal gyrus (STG), which are involved in the goal-directed attention and semantic processing. Moreover, the fALFF of these TCSs-related regions was also associated with different personality traits. While punishment was positively correlated with the fALFF of bilateral IPL and right MFG, reappraisal was positively correlated with the fALFF of bilateral SPL and left STG. Collectively, these findings offer profound insights into how personality traits shape individuals' TCSs and their neural foundations.
期刊介绍:
Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.