Broad Clinical Phenotype and Facets of Emotion Regulation in Interpersonal Trauma Survivors

Lilly, Michelle M.; London, Melissa J.

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“…Difficulties with respect to the non-acceptance of emotional responses, defined as the “tendency to have negative secondary emotional responses to one’s negative emotions or non-accepting reactions to one’s distress” (Gratz & Roemer, 2004 , pp. 47), were shown to predict symptoms of diseases that involve abnormal physiological arousal like, for example, depression (e.g., APA, 2013 ; Lilly & London, 2015 ). Self-referential emotional awareness, defined as the “tendency to attend to and acknowledge emotions” (Gratz & Roemer, 2004 , pp.…”

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Subjective emotional arousal: an explorative study on the role of gender, age, intensity, emotion regulation difficulties, depression and anxiety symptoms, and meta-emotion

Deckert

Schmoeger

Auff

et al. 2019

Psychological Research

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Subjective emotional arousal in typically developing adults was investigated in an explorative study. 177 participants (20–70 years) rated facial expressions and words for self-experienced arousal and perceived intensity, and completed the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation scale and the Hospital Anxiety and Depression scale (HADS-D). Exclusion criteria were psychiatric or neurological diseases, or clinically relevant scores in the HADS-D. Arousal regarding faces and words was significantly predicted by emotional clarity. Separate analyses showed following significant results: arousal regarding faces and arousal regarding words constantly predicted each other; negative faces were predicted by age and intensity; neutral faces by gender and impulse control; positive faces by gender and intensity; negative words by emotional clarity; and neutral words by gender. Males showed higher arousal scores than females regarding neutral faces and neutral words; for the other arousal scores, no explicit group differences were shown. Cluster analysis yielded three distinguished emotional characteristics groups: “emotional difficulties disposition group” (mainly females; highest emotion regulation difficulties, depression and anxiety scores; by trend highest arousal), “low emotional awareness group” (exclusively males; lowest awareness regarding currently experienced emotions; by trend intermediate arousal), and a “low emotional difficulties group” (exclusively females; lowest values throughout). No age effect was shown. Results suggest that arousal elicited by facial expressions and words are specialized parts of a greater emotional processing system and that typically developing adults show some kind of stable, modality-unspecific dispositional baseline of emotional arousal. Emotional awareness and clarity, and impulse control probably are trait aspects of emotion regulation that influence emotional arousal in typically developing adults and can be regarded as aspects of meta-emotion. Different emotional personality styles were shown between as well as within gender groups.

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Subjective emotional arousal: an explorative study on the role of gender, age, intensity, emotion regulation difficulties, depression and anxiety symptoms, and meta-emotion

Deckert

Schmoeger

Auff

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Psychological Research

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“…Specifically, this literature has demonstrated that interpersonal traumas result in higher overall levels of posttraumatic stress symptoms and different clinical phenotypes of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than do events that are noninterpersonal in nature (e.g., accidents, medical traumas; Kelley, Weathers, McDevitt-Murphy, Eakin, & Flood, 2009). Additionally, research has demonstrated that there is considerable heterogeneity of PTSD symptom phenotypes among individuals who have experienced interpersonal trauma (Lilly & London, 2015). Thus, scholars have turned their attention toward explaining this heterogeneity.…”

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Facets of emotion dysregulation as mediators of the association between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms in justice-involved adolescents.

Bennett¹,

Modrowski²,

Chaplo³

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Recent scholarship on traumatic stress has suggested that particular types of traumatic stressors may result in different patterns of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. Specifically, traumatic stressors that are interpersonal and involve betrayal have been found to be particularly detrimental to youths' psychological functioning. In addition, the extent to which youth experience emotion dysregulation (ED) has been demonstrated to mediate the association between betrayal trauma and PTSD. However, research has yet to disentangle whether betrayal trauma impacts specific facets of ED and PTSD symptoms. Elucidating the specific connections between these constructs is important to our understanding of the impact of betrayal trauma on youth development, and could aid in the development of more targeted interventions for traumatized youth. Thus, the current study sought to examine whether facets of ED mediated the association between traumatic experiences characterized by betrayal versus nonbetrayal and PTSD, and whether these associations were consistent across gender. Participants included 845 detained adolescents (220 girls) aged 12-19 (M ϭ 16.12, SD ϭ 1.29). Youth self-reported lifetime trauma exposure, past-month Diagnostic and Statistical Manual for Mental Disorders-Fifth Edition (DSM-5) PTSD symptoms, and distinct facets of ED. Results suggested several facets of ED were implicated in the association between betrayal and nonbetrayal trauma exposure and specific symptoms of PTSD. Furthermore, few gender differences were observed, suggesting overall similar impacts of trauma exposure on both girls' and boys' emotion regulation capabilities. Results highlight the utility of examining facets of ED from both research and clinical perspectives. Future research should continue to investigate the relation between emotion dysregulation and PTSD in at-risk youth.

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Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology

DeJonghe

2020

The Wiley Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

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Broad Clinical Phenotype and Facets of Emotion Regulation in Interpersonal Trauma Survivors

Abstract: Cluster analyses revealed symptom clusters that may vary in their appropriateness for current posttrauma interventions. Implications for research and clinical practice are discussed.

Cited by 9 publications

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Subjective emotional arousal: an explorative study on the role of gender, age, intensity, emotion regulation difficulties, depression and anxiety symptoms, and meta-emotion

Subjective emotional arousal: an explorative study on the role of gender, age, intensity, emotion regulation difficulties, depression and anxiety symptoms, and meta-emotion

Facets of emotion dysregulation as mediators of the association between trauma exposure and posttraumatic stress symptoms in justice-involved adolescents.

Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology

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