Specificity of emotion regulation difficulties related to anxiety in early adolescence.

Autor: Mathews BL; Department of Psychology, Kent State University, 600 Hilltop Dr., Kent, OH 44242, USA. Electronic address: bmathew6@kent.edu., Kerns KA; Department of Psychology, Kent State University, 600 Hilltop Dr., Kent, OH 44242, USA., Ciesla JA; Department of Psychology, Kent State University, 600 Hilltop Dr., Kent, OH 44242, USA.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of adolescence [J Adolesc] 2014 Oct; Vol. 37 (7), pp. 1089-97. Date of Electronic Publication: 2014 Aug 23.
DOI: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2014.08.002
Abstrakt: Etiological models identify difficulties in emotion regulation as potential contributors to the development and maintenance of anxiety. To date, studies with adolescents have not tested whether different types of anxiety symptoms are related to different emotion regulation difficulties. The current study aimed to examine specificity of associations between emotion regulation difficulties and symptoms of social and generalized anxiety in early adolescence. Ninety adolescents (ages 11-14 years) completed measures of emotion regulation and anxiety symptoms. Social and generalized anxiety symptoms showed similar bivariate correlations with emotion regulation. However, when controlling for generalized anxiety, social anxiety symptoms were uniquely related to emotion understanding, acceptance, evaluation, and reactivity. Generalized anxiety symptoms were uniquely related to emotion modification. The current study suggests that social and generalized anxiety symptoms have both common and unique associations with emotion regulation difficulties in early adolescence, and has implications for which emotion regulation skills to target in clinical interventions.
(Copyright © 2014 The Foundation for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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