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Examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders

BACKGROUND: Difficulties in emotion regulation (ER) abilities have been found to play a central role in different psychiatric disorders. However, researchers rarely compare ER across different diagnostic groups. In the current study, we examined ER and its relation to functional and symptomatic outc...

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Autores principales: Igra, Libby, Shilon, Sharon, Kivity, Yogev, Atzil-Slonim, Dana, Lavi-Rotenberg, Adi, Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36998365
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.944457
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author Igra, Libby
Shilon, Sharon
Kivity, Yogev
Atzil-Slonim, Dana
Lavi-Rotenberg, Adi
Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit
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Shilon, Sharon
Kivity, Yogev
Atzil-Slonim, Dana
Lavi-Rotenberg, Adi
Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit
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description BACKGROUND: Difficulties in emotion regulation (ER) abilities have been found to play a central role in different psychiatric disorders. However, researchers rarely compare ER across different diagnostic groups. In the current study, we examined ER and its relation to functional and symptomatic outcome among three distinct diagnostic groups: people with schizophrenia (SCZ), people with emotional disorders (EDs; i.e., depression and/or anxiety), and individuals without any psychiatric diagnosis (controls). METHODS: Participants in this study comprised 108 adults who requested psychotherapy at a community clinic in the year 2015 and between 2017 and 2019. Clients were interviewed and filled out questionnaires measuring depression, distress, and difficulties in ER abilities. RESULTS: Results showed that individuals with psychiatric diagnoses reported higher levels of difficulties in ER abilities than did controls. Moreover, there were very few differences in levels of ER difficulty between SCZ and EDs. Further, the associations between maladaptive ER and psychological outcomes were significant in each diagnostic group, and especially for SCZ. CONCLUSION: Our study indicates that difficulties in ER abilities partially have a transdiagnostic nature, and that these difficulties are associated with psychological outcomes among both clinical populations and controls. There were very few differences in levels of ER ability difficulties between SCZ and EDs, suggesting that the two groups share difficulties in relating and responding to emotional distress. The associations between difficulties in ER abilities and outcome were more robust and stronger among SCZ than the other groups, highlighting the potential contribution of targeting ER abilities in the treatment of schizophrenia.
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spelling pubmed-100432222023-03-29 Examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders Igra, Libby Shilon, Sharon Kivity, Yogev Atzil-Slonim, Dana Lavi-Rotenberg, Adi Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit Front Psychol Psychology BACKGROUND: Difficulties in emotion regulation (ER) abilities have been found to play a central role in different psychiatric disorders. However, researchers rarely compare ER across different diagnostic groups. In the current study, we examined ER and its relation to functional and symptomatic outcome among three distinct diagnostic groups: people with schizophrenia (SCZ), people with emotional disorders (EDs; i.e., depression and/or anxiety), and individuals without any psychiatric diagnosis (controls). METHODS: Participants in this study comprised 108 adults who requested psychotherapy at a community clinic in the year 2015 and between 2017 and 2019. Clients were interviewed and filled out questionnaires measuring depression, distress, and difficulties in ER abilities. RESULTS: Results showed that individuals with psychiatric diagnoses reported higher levels of difficulties in ER abilities than did controls. Moreover, there were very few differences in levels of ER difficulty between SCZ and EDs. Further, the associations between maladaptive ER and psychological outcomes were significant in each diagnostic group, and especially for SCZ. CONCLUSION: Our study indicates that difficulties in ER abilities partially have a transdiagnostic nature, and that these difficulties are associated with psychological outcomes among both clinical populations and controls. There were very few differences in levels of ER ability difficulties between SCZ and EDs, suggesting that the two groups share difficulties in relating and responding to emotional distress. The associations between difficulties in ER abilities and outcome were more robust and stronger among SCZ than the other groups, highlighting the potential contribution of targeting ER abilities in the treatment of schizophrenia. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10043222/ /pubmed/36998365 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.944457 Text en Copyright © 2023 Igra, Shilon, Kivity, Atzil-Slonim, Lavi-Rotenberg and Hasson-Ohayon. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Atzil-Slonim, Dana
Lavi-Rotenberg, Adi
Hasson-Ohayon, Ilanit
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title Examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders
title_full Examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders
title_fullStr Examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders
title_full_unstemmed Examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders
title_short Examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders
title_sort examining the associations between difficulties in emotion regulation and symptomatic outcome measures among individuals with different mental disorders
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10043222/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36998365
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.944457
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