The differential relation of trauma types with negative and positive emotion dysregulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Jillian B. Berfield ◽  
Svetlana Goncharenko ◽  
Shannon R. Forkus ◽  
Ateka A. Contractor ◽  
Nicole H. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Differential Relation ◽  
Trauma Types

Intimate Partner Violence and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: Indirect Effects Through Negative and Positive Emotion Dysregulation

2021 ◽  
pp. 088626052110063
Author(s):  
Lauren E. Simpson ◽  
Alexa M. Raudales ◽  
Miranda E. Reyes ◽  
Tami P. Sullivan ◽  
Nicole H. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Symptom Severity ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation

Women who experience intimate partner violence (IPV) are at heightened risk for developing posttraumatic stress (PTS). Emotion dysregulation has been linked to both IPV and PTS, separately, however, unknown is the role of emotion dysregulation in the relation of IPV to PTS among women who experience IPV. Moreover, existing investigations in this area have been limited in their focus on negative emotion dysregulation. Extending prior research, this study investigated whether physical, sexual, and psychological IPV were indirectly associated with PTS symptom severity through negative and positive emotion dysregulation. Participants were 354 women who reported a history of IPV recruited from Amazon’s MTurk platform ( Mage = 36.52, 79.9% white). Participants completed self-report measures assessing physical (Conflict Tactics Scale), sexual (Sexual Experiences Scale), and psychological (Psychological Maltreatment of Women) IPV; negative (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale) and positive (Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale-Positive) emotion dysregulation; and PTS symptom severity (PTSD Checklist for DSM-5) via an online survey. Pearson’s correlation coefficients examined intercorrelations among the primary study variables. Indirect effect analyses were conducted to determine if negative and positive emotion dysregulation explained the relations between physical, sexual, and psychological IPV and PTS symptom severity. Physical, sexual, and psychological IPV were significantly positively associated with both negative and positive emotion dysregulation as well as PTS symptom severity, with the exception that psychological IPV was not significantly associated with positive emotion dysregulation. Moreover, negative and positive emotion dysregulation accounted for the relationships between all three IPV types and PTS symptom severity, with the exception of positive emotion dysregulation and psychological IPV. Our findings provide support for the potential underlying role of both negative and positive emotion dysregulation in the associations of IPV types to PTS symptom severity. Negative and positive emotion dysregulation may be important factors to integrate into interventions for PTS among women who experience IPV.

Positive Emotion Dysregulation Identifies Trauma-Exposed Community Individuals at Risk for Suicide and Nonsuicidal Self-Injury

2021 ◽  
Vol Publish Ahead of Print ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexa M. Raudales ◽  
Angela G. Darosh ◽  
Ateka A. Contractor ◽  
Heather T. Schatten ◽  
Katherine L. Dixon-Gordon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Self Injury ◽  
Nonsuicidal Self Injury

Positive Emotion Dysregulation in Eating Disorders and Obesity

2019 ◽  
pp. 423-443
Author(s):  
Edward A. Selby ◽  
Emily Panza ◽  
Maribel Plasencia
Keyword(s):  
Eating Disorders ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Binge Eating ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Emotional Experience ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Alternative Methods

Individuals diagnosed with eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder often experience a great deal of suffering and persistent reoccurrence of symptoms and engage in suicidal and self-harming behaviors. The bulk of psychological research on eating disorders has historically focused primarily on the experience of negative emotion, which has been well established as a problem across the eating disorders. Emerging evidence suggests that positive emotion dysregulation may also play an important and underappreciated role in eating disorders. The positive emotion dysregulation in eating disorders can take various forms, resulting in either a dearth of positive emotional experience or maladaptive elevations in positive emotion. Some eating-disordered behaviors, such as binge eating, may result in momentary elevations in positive emotion, while others, such as purging, may ameliorate negative emotion and simultaneously promote positive emotions such as relief. In contrast, anorexia nervosa is a disorder frequently characterized by rigid self-control; a growing body of evidence suggests that many anorexia nervosa weight loss behaviors may facilitate the experience and control of positive emotion. Importantly, the experiences of both negative and positive emotion dysregulation may contribute to challenges faced in treating eating disorders and issues with recurrence of symptoms, particularly for anorexia nervosa. Finding alternative methods for facilitating positive emotion in an adaptive manner may be critical for improving current eating disorder treatments. Thus, positive emotion dysregulation may contribute to both onset and maintenance of eating disorders; addressing these issues may provide a promising future direction for improving clinical interventions for eating disorders.

Positive Emotion Regulation in Depression

2019 ◽  
pp. 238-250
Author(s):  
W. Michael Vanderlind ◽  
Jutta Joormann
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Major Depression ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Self Report ◽  
Behavioral Tasks

Depression is a disorder of emotion dysregulation. Indeed, emotion regulation difficulties are clearly evident in the hallmark features of the disorder: sustained negative affect and anhedonia. Whereas an abundance of research has focused on the downregulation of negative affect, only recently has empirical work begun to untangle depression-related difficulties experiencing and maintaining positive emotions. This chapter first reviews the phenomenology of positive emotion disruptions within major depression and then identifies emerging findings that highlight potential mechanisms of these disruptions. Various forms of methodology (e.g., self-report, behavioral tasks, psychophysiology, neuroimaging) are integrated to address the following questions: Where does positive emotion fall apart in depression and why? The chapter concludes by discussing implications for the assessment of major depression as well as the refinement of interventions aimed at treating this debilitating disorder.

Positive Emotion Dysregulation Among Community Individuals: The Role of Trauma Exposure and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (5) ◽  
pp. 741-749
Author(s):  
Nicole H. Weiss ◽  
Ateka A. Contractor ◽  
Shannon R. Forkus ◽  
Svetlana Goncharenko ◽  
Alexa M. Raudales
Keyword(s):  
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Stress Disorder ◽  
Trauma Exposure

The role of positive emotion dysregulation in the relationship between childhood abuse and PTSD in a community sample of veterans

2021 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 104979
Author(s):  
Svetlana Goncharenko ◽  
Shannon R. Forkus ◽  
Ateka A. Contractor ◽  
Reina Kiefer ◽  
Nicole H. Weiss
Keyword(s):  
Childhood Abuse ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Positive Emotion ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
The Relationship
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