Socially-Based Emotion Dysregulation Among Hearing-Impaired Adolescents: An Event-Related Potential Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Hearing impairment adversely affects the development and maturation of the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex, which is a region critical for social emotion regulation. The present study aimed to examine how hearing impairment influences socially-based emotion regulation in adolescents or its underlying neural mechanisms.

Method

To address this gap, the present study recorded event-related potentials (ERP) while participants viewed images depicting social exclusion or used emotion regulation strategies to down-regulate their emotional responses.

Finding

Behavioral results indicated that normal-hearing adolescents reported a significant reduction in negative affect when employing regulation strategies, an effect not observed in hearing-impaired adolescents. ERP da

SUBMITTER: Zhang P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12638441 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature