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Regional Gray Matter Volume Mediates the Relationship Between Conscientiousness and Expressive Suppression

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Title
Regional Gray Matter Volume Mediates the Relationship Between Conscientiousness and Expressive Suppression
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, August 2018
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00301
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Authors

Cheng Chen, Yu Mao, Jie Luo, Li He, Qiu Jiang

Abstract

Conscientiousness is frequently characterized by tendencies to be self-disciplined, to demonstrate organization and dependability, to act dutifully, to aim for achievement and to have good impulse control; this trait plays an important role in some special contexts, such as legal consciousness. Although a great number of studies have confirmed the impact of conscientiousness on emotion experience, little is known about the relationship between conscientiousness and emotion regulation, or of the brain structural basis that is involved. The current study investigated the neuroanatomical basis of the relationship between conscientiousness and emotion regulation from the perspective of individual differences. The voxel-based morphometry (VBM) method at the whole-brain level was used to identify the brain structural basis related to conscientiousness in a large, young sample (n = 351). The results showed that conscientiousness was significantly and positively correlated with the gray matter volume (GMV) in the right inferior frontal gyrus (IFG), which is the key region for inhibitory control. Further mediation analysis revealed that the IFG volume partially mediated the relation between conscientiousness and expressive suppression (ES), rather than cognitive reappraisal (CR), which showed that the IFG is associated with direct inhibitory control and plays a specific role in the relationship between conscientiousness and the two strategies of emotion regulation. Taken together, these findings contributed to sharpening the understanding of the correlation between conscientiousness and emotion regulation from the perspective of the brain structural basis.

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Unknown 29 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 5 17%
Student > Master 3 10%
Other 2 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 7%
Student > Bachelor 2 7%
Other 5 17%
Unknown 10 34%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 5 17%
Neuroscience 5 17%
Social Sciences 2 7%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 1 3%
Computer Science 1 3%
Other 4 14%
Unknown 11 38%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 2. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 26 January 2019.
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#14,135,105
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Outputs from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#4,319
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#179,527
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Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
#79
of 115 outputs
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