This study explored relations between components of cumulative risk and adjustment in a sample of 324 South African youth (M age = 13.11 years; SD = 1.54 years; 65 % female; 56 % Black / African; 14 % Colored; 23 % Indian; 7 % White), and tested competing models of
emotion dysregulation as a mediator or moderator of risk — adjustment links.
In other words,
emotion dysregulation as a core deficit serves as an embedded risk factor that can lead to multiple, different outcomes (i.e., «multifinality» [13]-RRB-.
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We examined parent
emotion dysregulation as part of a model of family emotion - related processes and adolescent psychopathology.
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Together, these findings support the concept of borderline personality disorder
as a disorder of
emotion dysregulation.
Using a nonhuman primate model, their findings provide insight into the mechanisms of human psychiatric disorders associated with
emotion dysregulation, such
as PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder) and schizophrenia.
In fact, the person you care about may have traits associated with borderline personality disorder (BPD), such
as emotion dysregulation, impulsive behavior, unstable sense of self, and difficulty with interpersonal relationships.
Moreover, in healthy subjects, authors found that specific beliefs about
emotions as being uncontrollable, dangerous and shameful, were related to BDP symptoms,
dysregulation behaviours, and specific coping styles.
Generally, the current study represents a wider framework toward understanding the important role beliefs about
emotions play in the understanding of
emotion dysregulation,
as delineated by several theories, researches and clinical observations (Gross & Thompson, 2007; Werner & Gross, 2010).
DBT targets addiction
as a symptom of
emotion dysregulation.
Limited research has investigated how the characteristics of parents, such
as parental
emotion dysregulation, are associated with their reactions to children's
emotions.
Analogously to observations on the relationships between emotional avoidance, beliefs about
emotions, and
emotion dysregulation (Linehan, 1993), it has recently been argued that experiential avoidance — the tendency to escape private experiences, such
as emotions — may be understood
as a function of
emotion dysregulation (Hayes et al., 1996; Boulanger, Hayes, & Pistorello, 2010).
The present investigation examined the main and interactive effects of anxiety sensitivity (
AS) and
emotion dysregulation in predicting anxiety - relevant cognitive and affective symptoms among a community - based sample of young adults (n = 242, 135 women; M age = 23.0 years, SD = 8.71).
Consistent with hypotheses, the interaction between
AS and
emotion dysregulation significantly predicted worry, catastrophic cognitions about bodily events, and anxious arousal symptoms above and beyond the respective main effects and negative affectivity; though this interactive effect contributed only 1 % of unique variance to each of these criterion variables.
Indeed, disordered and dysregulated mood defines many forms of psychopathology, and difficulty with
emotion regulation has been described
as a core deficit that emerges across psychiatric disorders and manifests
as dysregulation across multiple levels of analysis — biology, physiology, and behavior [15].
Although this could not be tested in the current study, given the theoretical importance of attachment security to child emotional functioning (e.g., Cassidy, 1994),
as well
as the well - established link between emotional
dysregulation and childhood anxiety, another hypothesis is that attachment security relates to anxiety via children's emotional capacities, including children's
emotion understanding and regulation.
Increasingly, the diverse presentations have been conceptualized
as core system
dysregulation, including
emotion dysregulation.
Moreover, path analyses revealed that
emotion dysregulation mediated the influence of both forms of internalized stigma on symptoms of depression / anxiety and sexual compulsivity / hypersexuality
as well
as serodiscordant condomless anal sex.
In sum, results of the present study imply that when studying the emotional underpinnings of (internalizing) psychopathology, researchers may want to focus less on the specific
emotions, and more on the general form the
dysregulation takes,
as indicated by high levels of negative, and low levels of positive
emotions, or highly variable
emotions.
The
dysregulation of
emotions may be studied at all different levels of
emotion experience, cognition and regulation, such
as emotional dynamics (Silk et al. 2003),
emotion knowledge (e.g., not knowing that one may experience different
emotions at the same time and believing that emotional experiences can not be modulated; e.g., Meerum - Terwogt and Olthof 1989), difficulties with the use of
emotion regulation strategies (e.g., distraction, cognitive reinterpretation; Gross and Thompson 2007), and meta -
emotion experiences (e.g., nonacceptance of emotional responses; Gratz and Roemer 2004).
The term
emotion dysregulation has been applied to problems with the intensity, frequency and duration of emotional responses,
as well difficulties modulating emotional experiences in effective and adaptive ways (Bloch, Moran & Kring, 2010).
Despite recent empirical efforts to characterize the relationship between
emotion dysregulation and borderline symptomatology among adolescents, many questions remain unanswered about the role of
emotion dysregulation in the development of BPD,
as well
as the nature and extent of
emotion dysregulation among adolescents who have BPD.
These findings are commonly interpreted
as suggesting that
emotion dysregulation influences the development of psychopathology.
Emotion dysregulation is often invoked as an important construct for understanding risk for psychopathology, but specificity of domains of emotion regulation in clinically relevant research is often l
Emotion dysregulation is often invoked
as an important construct for understanding risk for psychopathology, but specificity of domains of
emotion regulation in clinically relevant research is often l
emotion regulation in clinically relevant research is often lacking.
In addition to application to research and theory, the study of basic emotional processes in adolescence is also informative for prevention and intervention efforts,
as early forms of
emotion dysregulation can indicate risk for psychopathology (Cole and Hall 2008).