Low Emotional Awareness as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism Underlying Psychopathology in Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: The ability to identify and label one's emotions is associated with effective emotion regulation, rendering emotional awareness important for mental health. We evaluated how emotional awareness was related to psychopathology and whether low emotional awareness was a transdiagnostic mechanism explaining the increase in psychopathology during the transition to adolescence and as a function of childhood trauma-specifically violence exposure. In Study 1, children and adolescents (N=120, aged 7-19 years) reported on emotional awareness and psychopathology. Emotional awareness was negatively associated with psychopathology (p-factor) and worsened across age in females but not males. In Study 2 (N=262, aged 8-16 years), we replicated these findings and demonstrated longitudinally that low emotion

SUBMITTER: Weissman DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7983841 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature