An examination of recent non-clinical panic attacks, panic disorder, anxiety sensitivity, and emotion regulation difficulties in the prediction of generalized anxiety disorder in an analogue sample

Exploring the Relationship Between Childhood Abuse and Analogue Generalized Anxiety Disorder: The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation

“…Consistent with hypotheses, childhood emotional abuse and emotion dysregulation were significantly associated with analogue GAD, distinguishing participants with analogue GAD from those without GAD pathology. These findings are consistent with past findings of a relationship between childhood abuse and GAD (see Kessler et al 1997), as well as a growing body of empirical literature that implicates emotion regulation difficulties in anxiety disorders in general (e.g., Amstadeter 2008;Campbell-Sills et al 2006;Tull 2006; and GAD in particular (e.g., Decker et al 2008;McLaughlin et al 2007;Mennin et al 2005;Novick-Kline et al 2005;Roemer et al 2009;Salters-Pedneault et al 2006;Tull et al 2009Tull et al , 2005.…”

“…Further, these aspects of emotion dysregulation were predictive of a GAD diagnosis even after controlling for other GAD-relevant variables, such as worry, anxiety, and depressive symptom severity. Likewise, Roemer et al (2009) reported heightened emotion dysregulation among clinical and analogue GAD samples (vs. non-GAD controls), with emotion dysregulation predicting GAD status above and beyond a number of other relevant factors, including anxiety and depressive symptom severity (see also Tull et al 2009 for similar results). Finally, SaltersPedneault et al (2006) found that overall emotion dysregulation was significantly associated with the presence of an analogue GAD diagnosis (as were deficits in the specific dimensions of emotional clarity, emotional acceptance, the ability to engage in goal-directed behaviors when distressed, the ability to control impulsive behaviors when distressed, and access to emotion regulation strategies perceived as effective).…”

Efficacy of Emotion Regulation Skills and Meta-cognitive Beliefs in Reducing Social Phobia Among Students- A Casual-Comparative Study

“…There are various definitions of emotion regulation, but all of them have defined it as the manner in which individuals control their experience and expression of emotion under distress conditions using strategies such as supervision, suppression and cognitive reappraisal (Gross, 2002). Studies show emotion regulation is from psychological characteristics that often associated with anxiety sensitivity (McDermott et al, 2009;Tull et al, 2009). Jacobs et al (2008) showed that high emotional understanding; appropriate uses from emotions and positive emotional experience have a significant negative correlation with severity of social anxiety in people with the disease, so that there is an inverse relationship between levels of social anxiety and self-referral emotional processing levels.…”

Distress Tolerance, Emotion Dysregulation, and Anxiety and Depressive Symptoms Among HIV+ Individuals

“…Gratz and Roemer (2004) developed a self-report scale, entitled the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), which measures emotion dysregulation as a higher-order construct involving multiple, internally consistent, lower-order dimensions. Emotion dysregulation (higher-order factor), as measured by the DERS, is related to increased levels of negative emotional symptoms (Anestis et al 2011;Gratz and Roemer 2004;Kashdan et al 2008;Tull et al 2008Tull et al , 2009Vujanovic et al 2008), coping-oriented substance use (Bonn-Miller et al 2008;Johnson et al 2012), self-harm (Gratz and Tull 2010), and sexual difficulties (Rellini et al 2010(Rellini et al , 2012) among non-HIV/AIDS samples. Thus, emotion regulation is a construct that reflects responding to emotional states through the identification, interpretation, and management of these states.…”