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Distinct emotion regulation skills explain psychopathology and problems in social relationships following childhood emotional abuse and neglect

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 March 2018

Sara R. Berzenski
Sara R. Berzenski*
Affiliation:
California State University, Northridge
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Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Sara R. Berzenski, Department of Psychology, California State University, Northridge, 18111 Nordhoff St., Northridge, CA 91330; E-mail: sara.berzenski@csun.edu.
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Abstract

Efforts to differentiate between the developmental sequelae of childhood emotional abuse and childhood emotional neglect are critical to both research and practice efforts. As an oft-identified mechanism of the effects of child maltreatment on later adjustment, emotion dysregulation represents a key potential pathway. The present study explored a higher order factor model of specific emotion regulation skills, and the extent to which these skill sets would indicate distinct developmental pathways from unique emotional maltreatment experiences to multidomain adjustment. A sample of 500 ethnoracially diverse college students reported on their experiences. A two-factor model of emotion regulation skills based on subscales of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale was revealed. Significant indirect effects of childhood emotional abuse on psychopathology and problems in social relationships were found through response-focused difficulties in emotion regulation, whereas a significant indirect effect of childhood emotional neglect on problems in social relationships was found through antecedent-focused difficulties in emotion regulation. These results are consistent with theoretical models and empirical evidence suggesting differential effects of childhood emotional abuse and emotional neglect, and provide an important indication for developing targeted interventions focusing on specific higher order emotion dysregulation skill clusters.

Keywords

emotional abuseemotional neglectemotion regulationpsychopathologysocial relationships
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Regular Articles
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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , May 2019 , pp. 483 - 496
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2018 

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