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Difficulties with emotion regulation as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking child maltreatment with the emergence of psychopathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 April 2019

David G. Weissman ,
Debbie Bitran ,
Adam Bryant Miller ,
Jonathan D. Schaefer ,
Margaret A. Sheridan  and
Katie A. McLaughlin
David G. Weissman*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
Debbie Bitran
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Adam Bryant Miller
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Jonathan D. Schaefer
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Margaret A. Sheridan
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Katie A. McLaughlin
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
*
Author for Correspondence: David G. Weissman, Harvard University, William James, Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambrige, MA, 02138; E-mail: dweissman@fas.harvard.edu.
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Abstract

Childhood maltreatment is associated with increased risk for most forms of psychopathology. We examine emotion dysregulation as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking maltreatment with general psychopathology. A sample of 262 children and adolescents participated; 162 (61.8%) experienced abuse or exposure to domestic violence. We assessed four emotion regulation processes (cognitive reappraisal, attention bias to threat, expressive suppression, and rumination) and emotional reactivity. Psychopathology symptoms were assessed concurrently and at a 2-year longitudinal follow-up. A general psychopathology factor (p factor), representing co-occurrence of psychopathology symptoms across multiple internalizing and externalizing domains, was estimated using confirmatory factor analysis. Maltreatment was associated with heightened emotional reactivity and greater use of expressive suppression and rumination. The association of maltreatment with attention bias varied across development, with maltreated children exhibiting a bias toward threat and adolescents a bias away from threat. Greater emotional reactivity and engagement in rumination mediated the longitudinal association between maltreatment and increased general psychopathology over time. Emotion dysregulation following childhood maltreatment occurs at multiple stages of the emotion generation process, in some cases varies across development, and serves as a transdiagnostic mechanism linking child maltreatment with general psychopathology.

Keywords

adversityattention biasp factorruminationthreat
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Special Issue Articles
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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 31 , Special Issue 3: Emotion Dysregulation and Emerging Psychopathology , August 2019 , pp. 899 - 915
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