Childhood maltreatment and emotion regulation in everyday life: an experience sampling study.

ABSTRACT: Childhood maltreatment is a major risk factor for psychopathology, and increasing evidence suggests that emotion regulation is one of the underlying mechanisms. However, most of this evidence comes from single assessments of habitual emotion regulation, which may not overlap with spontaneous emotion regulation in daily life and which fail to account for within-individual variability in emotion regulation across multiple contexts. In the present study, we investigated the relation between history of childhood maltreatment, positive and negative affect, and multiple dimensions of spontaneous emotion regulation (strategy use, emotion regulation goals, emotion regulation success and effort) in everyday life, using experience sampling method (3 assessments/day, for 10 consecutive days), in a sa

SUBMITTER: Ion A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10156801 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature