Trial reportBMC psychology2018
Emotion regulation and its relation to symptoms of anxiety and depression in children aged 8-12 years: does parental gender play a differentiating role?
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- The Longitudinal and Reciprocal Associations Among Maternal Aggravation, Verbal Aggression, and Internalizing Problems from Childhood to Adolescence.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Risk for Childhood Depression: Role of Executive Functions.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Observational
- The effect of emotion regulation training on anxiety in college students in Egypt (Randomized control trial).Journal of public health research · 2025Article
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- Covid-19 psychological pressures, depression and FOMO: the mediating role of online social support and emotional regulation.BMC psychology · 2024Article
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- Depression in Children and Adolescents with Chronic Kidney Disease-Review of Available Literature.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Individual brain regulation as learned via neurofeedback is related to affective changes in adolescents with autism spectrum disorder.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- Mediated Associations Between Religious Coping, Self-Regulation, and Psychological Distress Vary for Young Muslim Men and Women in Lahore, Pakistan.Journal of religion and health · 2022Article
- Translation and psychometric validation of the traditional Chinese version of patient-reported outcomes measurement information system Pediatric-25 Profile version 2.0 (PROMIS-25) in Chinese Children with Cancer in Hong Kong.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2021Article
- Evaluating Delivery of a CBT-Based Group Intervention for Schoolchildren With Emotional Problems: Examining the Reliability and Applicability of a Video-Based Adherence and Competence Measure.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Inside the Clockwork of the ECHO Factorial Trial: A Conceptual Model With Proposed Mediators for Prevention of Emotional Problems in Children.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundSymptoms of anxiety and depression are prevalent and highly comorbid in children, contributing to considerable impairment even at a subclinical level. Difficulties with emotion regulation are potentially related to both anxious and depressive symptoms. Research looking at maternal contributions to children's mental health dominates the literature but ignores the potentially important contributions of fathers.
methodThe present study is part of the Coping Kids study in Norway, a randomized controlled study of a new indicated preventive intervention for children, EMOTION. EMOTION aims to reduce levels of anxious and depressive symptoms in children aged 8-12 years. Using cross sectional data and multiple regression analyses, we investigated the relations between anxious and depressive symptoms and emotion regulation in n = 602 children. Symptoms were reported by the child, mothers and fathers. Emotion regulation was reported by mothers and fathers.
resultsSymptoms of anxiety, as reported by parents, were associated with poorer emotion regulation. This association was also demonstrated for depressive symptoms as reported by both parents and children. When analyzing same gender reports, parental gender did not differentiate the relationship between anxiety symptoms and emotion regulation. For depressive symptoms, we did find a differentiating effect of parental gender, as the association with dysregulation of emotion was stronger in paternal reports, and the association with adaptive emotion regulation was stronger in maternal reports. When using reports from the opposite parent, the emotion regulation difficulties were still associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms, however exhibiting somewhat different emotional regulation profiles.
conclusionProblems with emotion regulation probably coexists with elevated levels of internalizing symptoms in children. In future research, both caregivers should be included.
trial registrationThe regional ethics committee (REC) of Norway approved the study. Registration number: 2013/1909; Project title: Coping Kids: a randomized controlled study of a new indicated preventive intervention for children with symptoms of anxiety and depression. ClinicalTrials.gov; Protocol ID 228846/H10 .
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