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Link between History of Childhood Maltreatment and Emotion Dysregulation in Adults Suffering from Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder

Childhood maltreatment (CM) may have a long-term effect on emotion regulation. This study aimed to explore the relationship between CM and emotion dysregulation (ED) in a heterogeneous population. Four hundred seventy French-speaking outpatients (N = 279 ADHD, N = 70 BPD, N = 60 ADHD + BPD, N = 61 c...

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Autores principales: Rüfenacht, Eva, Pham, Eléonore, Nicastro, Rosetta, Dieben, Karen, Hasler, Roland, Weibel, Sébastien, Perroud, Nader
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8533068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34680586
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9101469
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author Rüfenacht, Eva
Pham, Eléonore
Nicastro, Rosetta
Dieben, Karen
Hasler, Roland
Weibel, Sébastien
Perroud, Nader
author_facet Rüfenacht, Eva
Pham, Eléonore
Nicastro, Rosetta
Dieben, Karen
Hasler, Roland
Weibel, Sébastien
Perroud, Nader
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description Childhood maltreatment (CM) may have a long-term effect on emotion regulation. This study aimed to explore the relationship between CM and emotion dysregulation (ED) in a heterogeneous population. Four hundred seventy French-speaking outpatients (N = 279 ADHD, N = 70 BPD, N = 60 ADHD + BPD, N = 61 clinical controls) completed the Emotion Reactivity Scale (ERS), the Cognitive Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), and the Relationship Scales Questionnaire (RSQ). Reports of childhood maltreatment experiences were significantly associated with increased levels of emotion reactivity in all our groups and in the whole population, with a greater use of non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and insecure attachment patterns. Emotional abuse showed the strongest effect. Further analysis indicated that an anxious attachment style significantly mediated the relationship between CM and the use of non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and emotion reactivity. The results of our study suggest an impact of CM on ED and a potentially marked effect of emotional abuse. They also indicate a potentially mediating role of insecure attachment in the relationship between a history of childhood abuse and emotion reactivity and a higher use of non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adulthood.
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spelling pubmed-85330682021-10-23 Link between History of Childhood Maltreatment and Emotion Dysregulation in Adults Suffering from Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder Rüfenacht, Eva Pham, Eléonore Nicastro, Rosetta Dieben, Karen Hasler, Roland Weibel, Sébastien Perroud, Nader Biomedicines Article Childhood maltreatment (CM) may have a long-term effect on emotion regulation. This study aimed to explore the relationship between CM and emotion dysregulation (ED) in a heterogeneous population. Four hundred seventy French-speaking outpatients (N = 279 ADHD, N = 70 BPD, N = 60 ADHD + BPD, N = 61 clinical controls) completed the Emotion Reactivity Scale (ERS), the Cognitive Emotional Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ), and the Relationship Scales Questionnaire (RSQ). Reports of childhood maltreatment experiences were significantly associated with increased levels of emotion reactivity in all our groups and in the whole population, with a greater use of non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and insecure attachment patterns. Emotional abuse showed the strongest effect. Further analysis indicated that an anxious attachment style significantly mediated the relationship between CM and the use of non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and emotion reactivity. The results of our study suggest an impact of CM on ED and a potentially marked effect of emotional abuse. They also indicate a potentially mediating role of insecure attachment in the relationship between a history of childhood abuse and emotion reactivity and a higher use of non-adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies in adulthood. MDPI 2021-10-14 /pmc/articles/PMC8533068/ /pubmed/34680586 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9101469 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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Link between History of Childhood Maltreatment and Emotion Dysregulation in Adults Suffering from Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder
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title_short Link between History of Childhood Maltreatment and Emotion Dysregulation in Adults Suffering from Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder
title_sort link between history of childhood maltreatment and emotion dysregulation in adults suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder or borderline personality disorder
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8533068/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34680586
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/biomedicines9101469
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