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Attachment Styles, Personality Organization, and Substance Use as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Strategies “Suppression” and “Reappraisal” in Young Adults

BACKGROUND: As evidenced by current literature, there is a crucial link between emotion regulation, attachment, personality patterns, and substance abuse. However, knowledge regarding the exact interactions of these specific parameters in terms of substance abuse development is still sparse. Therefo...

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Autores principales: Burgkart, Pauline L., Vuzic, Xenia, Fuchshuber, Jürgen, Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8814417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35126201
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.786045
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author Burgkart, Pauline L.
Vuzic, Xenia
Fuchshuber, Jürgen
Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich
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Vuzic, Xenia
Fuchshuber, Jürgen
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description BACKGROUND: As evidenced by current literature, there is a crucial link between emotion regulation, attachment, personality patterns, and substance abuse. However, knowledge regarding the exact interactions of these specific parameters in terms of substance abuse development is still sparse. Therefore, this study is aimed to shed light on how two specific emotion regulation strategies (“Reappraisal” and “Suppression”) might be influenced by the relationship between attachment, structural deficits in personality organization, and addictive behaviors. METHOD: A total sample of 299 non-clinical young adults (Age: M = 22; SD = 3.81; 74.2% females) filled in the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) together with the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS), the Personality Organization Inventory (IPO-16), and the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening (ASSIST) by means of an online survey. RESULTS: As suggested by hierarchical regression analysis, attachment specifically predicted differences in Emotion Regulation (ER), whereby the AAS subscales “Close” ness (β = −0.38, p < 0.01) and “Depend” ence (β = –0.18, p < 0.01) were negatively associated with increased use of maladaptive strategies of expressional suppression of emotion, and “Depend” (β = 0.26, p < 0.01) was positively associated with increased use of adaptive strategies of cognitive reappraisal. DISCUSSION: In line with our assumptions, we observed a more secure attachment system to be predictive for an increased use of adequate emotion regulation strategies. The findings support the suggestion that a focus on underlying attachment-related processes in a psychotherapeutic setting might be a promising way to promote adaptive self-regulation of emotions.
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spelling pubmed-88144172022-02-05 Attachment Styles, Personality Organization, and Substance Use as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Strategies “Suppression” and “Reappraisal” in Young Adults Burgkart, Pauline L. Vuzic, Xenia Fuchshuber, Jürgen Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich Front Psychiatry Psychiatry BACKGROUND: As evidenced by current literature, there is a crucial link between emotion regulation, attachment, personality patterns, and substance abuse. However, knowledge regarding the exact interactions of these specific parameters in terms of substance abuse development is still sparse. Therefore, this study is aimed to shed light on how two specific emotion regulation strategies (“Reappraisal” and “Suppression”) might be influenced by the relationship between attachment, structural deficits in personality organization, and addictive behaviors. METHOD: A total sample of 299 non-clinical young adults (Age: M = 22; SD = 3.81; 74.2% females) filled in the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) together with the Adult Attachment Scale (AAS), the Personality Organization Inventory (IPO-16), and the Alcohol, Smoking and Substance Involvement Screening (ASSIST) by means of an online survey. RESULTS: As suggested by hierarchical regression analysis, attachment specifically predicted differences in Emotion Regulation (ER), whereby the AAS subscales “Close” ness (β = −0.38, p < 0.01) and “Depend” ence (β = –0.18, p < 0.01) were negatively associated with increased use of maladaptive strategies of expressional suppression of emotion, and “Depend” (β = 0.26, p < 0.01) was positively associated with increased use of adaptive strategies of cognitive reappraisal. DISCUSSION: In line with our assumptions, we observed a more secure attachment system to be predictive for an increased use of adequate emotion regulation strategies. The findings support the suggestion that a focus on underlying attachment-related processes in a psychotherapeutic setting might be a promising way to promote adaptive self-regulation of emotions. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8814417/ /pubmed/35126201 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.786045 Text en Copyright © 2022 Burgkart, Vuzic, Fuchshuber and Unterrainer. 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.
spellingShingle Psychiatry
Burgkart, Pauline L.
Vuzic, Xenia
Fuchshuber, Jürgen
Unterrainer, Human-Friedrich
Attachment Styles, Personality Organization, and Substance Use as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Strategies “Suppression” and “Reappraisal” in Young Adults
title Attachment Styles, Personality Organization, and Substance Use as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Strategies “Suppression” and “Reappraisal” in Young Adults
title_full Attachment Styles, Personality Organization, and Substance Use as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Strategies “Suppression” and “Reappraisal” in Young Adults
title_fullStr Attachment Styles, Personality Organization, and Substance Use as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Strategies “Suppression” and “Reappraisal” in Young Adults
title_full_unstemmed Attachment Styles, Personality Organization, and Substance Use as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Strategies “Suppression” and “Reappraisal” in Young Adults
title_short Attachment Styles, Personality Organization, and Substance Use as Predictors of Emotion Regulation Strategies “Suppression” and “Reappraisal” in Young Adults
title_sort attachment styles, personality organization, and substance use as predictors of emotion regulation strategies “suppression” and “reappraisal” in young adults
topic Psychiatry
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8814417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35126201
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.786045
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