Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review.

The role of emotion regulation in subclinical symptoms of mental disorders in adolescence is not yet well understood. This meta-analytic review examines the relationship between the habitual use of prominent adaptive emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal, problem solving, and acceptan...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 46; no. 2; pp. 261 - 277
Main Authors: Schäfer, Johanna, Naumann, Eva, Holmes, Emily, Tuschen-Caffier, Brunna, Samson, Andrea
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Feb2017
Subjects:
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
fields @attributes:
  recordID: 1
pdfLink:
plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=120771106&site=ehost-live
header:
  @attributes:
    shortDbName: ssf
    uiTerm: 120771106
    longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
    uiTag: AN
  controlInfo:
    bkinfo:
    jinfo:
      jid:
        00472891
        JYA
      jtl: Journal of Youth & Adolescence
      issn: 00472891
      maglogo: N
    pubinfo:
      dt: Feb2017
      vid: 46
      iid: 2
      pid: 237
      pub: Springer Nature
    artinfo:
      ui:
        120771106
        10.1007/s10964-016-0585-0
      ppf: 261
      ppct: 16
      formats:
        fmt:
          @attributes:
            type: P
            size: 508KB
      tig:
        atl: Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review.
      aug:
        au:
          Schäfer, Johanna
          Naumann, Eva
          Holmes, Emily
          Tuschen-Caffier, Brunna
          Samson, Andrea
        affil:
          Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy , University of Freiburg , Engelbergerstrasse 41 79106 Freiburg Germany
          Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy , University of Tübingen , Schleichstraße 4, Room 4231 72076 Tübingen Germany
      su:
        Youth psychology
        Depression in adolescence
        Age distribution
        Mental depression
        Emotions
        Self-management (Psychology)
        Anxiety disorders
        Adolescence
        Anxiety in youth
        Emotions in adolescence
        Meta-analysis
        Confidence intervals
        Fisher exact test
        Psychology information storage & retrieval systems
        MEDLINE
        Regression analysis
        Research funding
        Statistics
        Systematic reviews
        Search engines
        Effect sizes (Statistics)
        Data analysis software
        Medical coding
      sug:
        subj:
          Youth psychology
          Depression in adolescence
          Age distribution
          Mental depression
          Emotions
          Self-management (Psychology)
          Anxiety disorders
          Adolescence
          Anxiety in youth
          Emotions in adolescence
          Meta-analysis
          Confidence intervals
          Fisher exact test
          Psychology information storage & retrieval systems
          MEDLINE
          Regression analysis
          Research funding
          Statistics
          Systematic reviews
          Search engines
          Effect sizes (Statistics)
          Data analysis software
          Medical coding
      keyword:
        Adaptive
        Emotion regulation strategies
        Maladaptive
        Psychopathologies
        Youth
        Adaptive
        Emotion regulation strategies
        Maladaptive
        Psychopathologies
        Youth
      ab: The role of emotion regulation in subclinical symptoms of mental disorders in adolescence is not yet well understood. This meta-analytic review examines the relationship between the habitual use of prominent adaptive emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal, problem solving, and acceptance) and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (avoidance, suppression, and rumination) with depressive and anxiety symptoms in adolescence. Analyzing 68 effect sizes from 35 studies, we calculated overall outcomes across depressive and anxiety symptoms as well as psychopathology-specific outcomes. Age was examined as a continuous moderator via meta-regression models. The results from random effects analyses revealed that the habitual use of all emotion regulation strategies was significantly related to depressive and anxiety symptoms overall, with the adaptive emotion regulation strategies showing negative associations (i.e., less symptoms) with depressive and anxiety symptoms whereas the maladaptive emotion regulation strategies showed positive associations (i.e., more symptoms). A less frequent use of adaptive and a more frequent use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies were associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms comparably in the respective directions. Regarding the psychopathology-specific outcomes, depressive and anxiety symptoms displayed similar patterns across emotion regulation strategies showing the strongest negative associations with acceptance, and strongest positive associations with avoidance and rumination. The findings underscore the relevance of adaptive and also maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in depressive and anxiety symptoms in youth, and highlight the need to further investigate the patterns of emotion regulation as a potential transdiagnostic factor.
      pubtype: Academic Journal
      doctype: Article
      src: R
    language: English
    refInfo:
    copyright:
      @attributes:
        flag: N
    holdings:
      @attributes:
        islocal: N