Emotion regulation and psychopathology: Investigating differential associations between emotion regulation skills and psychological symptoms using a network approach.
Objectives: Emotion regulation plays an important role in the development and maintenance of psychopathology. However, the question whether specific ER skills are related to specific psychological symptoms has rarely been studied, but has important implications for targeted interventions. This analy...
| Published in: | British Journal of Clinical Psychology Vol. 64; no. 2; pp. 265 - 281 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Jun2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=185000022&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 185000022 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 01446657 99B jtl: British Journal of Clinical Psychology issn: 01446657 maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jun2025 vid: 64 iid: 2 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell place: Malden, Massachusetts artinfo: ui: 185000022 179628152 185000022 185000022 10.1111/bjc.12493 185000022 ppf: 265 ppct: 16 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: C – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Emotion regulation and psychopathology: Investigating differential associations between emotion regulation skills and psychological symptoms using a network approach. aug: au: Trautmann, Sebastian Muehlhan, Markus Berking, Matthias Miethe, Sandra Wigger, Janna Dragan, Małgorzata affil: Department of Psychology, Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany sug: subj: Emotional Regulation Psychopathology Behavioral Symptoms Social Network Analysis Human Male Female Adult Middle Age Mental Disorders Outpatient Service Psychotherapy Hospitals, Psychiatric Depression Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Brief Symptom Inventory Questionnaires Descriptive Statistics Adult: 19-44 years Middle Aged: 45-64 years Male Female ab: Objectives: Emotion regulation plays an important role in the development and maintenance of psychopathology. However, the question whether specific ER skills are related to specific psychological symptoms has rarely been studied, but has important implications for targeted interventions. This analysis aims to explore potential differential associations between various ER skills and psychological symptoms using a network analysis approach. Methods: Routine data from a transdiagnostic clinical sample of 716 patients (460 females, 256 males) from an outpatient clinic for psychotherapy were analysed. Nine ER skills were assessed with the Emotion Regulation Skills Questionnaire, and nine symptom dimension scores were obtained using the Brief Symptom Inventory. A regularized partial correlation network models including ER skills and individual symptom domains were calculated. Bridge expected influence was calculated to estimate the strength of association of each ER skill with psychological symptoms. Results: Only the following ER skills were most strongly related to psychological symptoms (bridge expected influence): Tolerance, Confrontation and Modification. All other ER skills were indirectly connected to symptom severity through these four skills. The strongest direct edges between ER skills and symptoms were Modification—Depression, Confrontation—Obsession‐Compulsion and Tolerance—Interpersonal Sensitivity, which were significantly stronger than the vast majority of other associations between ER skills and psychological symptoms. Conclusions: These exploratory findings provide valuable targets for future studies to investigate specific associations between ER skills and psychological symptoms which could help to improve outcome monitoring and efficacy of interventions targeting ER. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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