Specific emotion regulation difficulties mediate the relationship between personal distress and depressive symptoms in medical students.

ABSTRACT: Several studies indicate a link between personal distress and vulnerability to depression. The literature also suggests that personal distress is associated with emotion dysregulation and that emotion dysregulation plays a role in depression. However, which of the various emotion regulation difficulties mediates the relationship between personal distress and depression remains unexplored. This study therefore aims to investigate the mediating role of specific emotion regulation difficulties in the relationship between personal distress and depression. Of the 702 initially recruited participants, 635 completed a survey comprising the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, and the Beck Depression Inventory. A mediation analysis was used to explore which

SUBMITTER: Colonnello V 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11350488 | biostudies-literature | 2024

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature