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SynthesisJournal of youth and adolescence2017

Emotion Regulation Strategies in Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms in Youth: A Meta-Analytic Review.

Johanna Özlem Schäfer, Eva Naumann, Emily Alexandra Holmes, Brunna Tuschen-Caffier, Andrea Christiane Samson

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Synthesis in Journal of youth and adolescence, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 360 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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360 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Johanna Özlem SchäferDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Engelbergerstrasse 41, 79106 Freiburg, Germany. johanna.schaefer@psychologie.uni-freiburg.de.
Eva NaumannDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Tübingen, Schleichstraße 4, Room 4231, 72076 Tübingen, Germany.
Emily Alexandra HolmesMedical Research Council Cognition and Brain Science Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge, CB2 7EF,, UK.
Brunna Tuschen-CaffierDepartment of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Freiburg, Engelbergerstrasse 41, 79106 Freiburg, Germany.
Andrea Christiane SamsonSwiss Center for Affective Sciences, Campus Biotech, University of Geneva, Chemin des Mines 9, 1202 Geneva, Switzerland.

Funding

Medical Research Council MC_UU_00005/15Medical Research Council MRC-A060-5PR50
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The role of emotion regulation in subclinical symptoms of mental disorders in adolescence is not yet well understood. This meta-analytic review examines the relationship between the habitual use of prominent adaptive emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal, problem solving, and acceptance) and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies (avoidance, suppression, and rumination) with depressive and anxiety symptoms in adolescence. Analyzing 68 effect sizes from 35 studies, we calculated overall outcomes across depressive and anxiety symptoms as well as psychopathology-specific outcomes. Age was examined as a continuous moderator via meta-regression models. The results from random effects analyses revealed that the habitual use of all emotion regulation strategies was significantly related to depressive and anxiety symptoms overall, with the adaptive emotion regulation strategies showing negative associations (i.e., less symptoms) with depressive and anxiety symptoms whereas the maladaptive emotion regulation strategies showed positive associations (i.e., more symptoms). A less frequent use of adaptive and a more frequent use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies were associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms comparably in the respective directions. Regarding the psychopathology-specific outcomes, depressive and anxiety symptoms displayed similar patterns across emotion regulation strategies showing the strongest negative associations with acceptance, and strongest positive associations with avoidance and rumination. The findings underscore the relevance of adaptive and also maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in depressive and anxiety symptoms in youth, and highlight the need to further investigate the patterns of emotion regulation as a potential transdiagnostic factor.

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Repression, PsychologyAdaptation, PsychologicalAdolescentAdolescent BehaviorAnxietyDepressionEmotionsFeeding and Eating Disorders of ChildhoodFemaleHumansMaleProblem SolvingPsychopathologyResilience, PsychologicalAdaptiveEmotion regulation strategiesMaladaptiveMeta-analysisPsychopathologiesYouth

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PMID27734198

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