The impact of childhood maltreatment on adaptive emotion regulation strategies.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Childhood maltreatment is a potent known risk factor for psychopathology, accounting for nearly 30% of the risk for mental illness in adulthood. One mechanism by which maltreatment contributes to psychopathology is through impairments in emotion regulation. However, the impact of childhood maltreatment on adaptive regulation strategies remains unclear, particularly across positive and negative emotions.

Methods

Using Mechanical Turk, we recruited a cross-sectional sample of 207 adults (21-69 years) with and without childhood maltreatment exposure to complete an emotion regulation task where they were shown positive and negative emotional pictures and were instructed to reappraise or accept their emotions, alongside a non-instruction comparison condition. Participan

SUBMITTER: Wooten W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8821378 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature