Building on the assumption that
elevated levels of negative
emotions, diminished levels of happiness, and
elevated emotional variability are all indices of
emotion dysregulation, the results add to a growing body of evidence showing that
emotion dysregulation predicts symptoms of anxiety, depression and aggressive behavior in children and adolescents (Beauchaine et al. 2007; Bosquet and Egeland 2006; Yap et al. 2008).