Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? - a systematic review.

ABSTRACT: Proliferation of the term "emotion dysregulation" in child psychopathology parallels the growing interest in processes that influence negative emotional reactivity. While it commonly refers to a clinical phenotype where intense anger leads to behavioral dyscontrol, the term implies etiology because anything that is dysregulated requires an impaired regulatory mechanism. Many cognitive, affective, behavioral, neural, and social processes have been studied to improve understanding of emotion dysregulation. Nevertheless, the defective regulatory mechanism that might underlie it remains unclear. This systematic review of research on processes that affect emotion dysregulation endeavors to develop an integrative framework for the wide variety of factors investigated. It seeks to ascertain which

SUBMITTER: Blader JC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11920615 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature