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Affect regulation training reduces symptom severity in depression - A randomized controlled trial.
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Deficits in Emotion Regulation Skills as a Maintaining Factor in Major Depressive Disorder
REFLEX: A Randomized Controlled Trial to Test the Efficacy of an Emotion Regulation Flexibility Program With Daily Measures
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- A systematic review and meta-analysis of transdiagnostic cognitive behavioural therapies for emotional disorders.Nature human behaviour · 2024Pooled it
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- Elements in Mental Health Interventions Associated with Effects on Emotion Regulation in Adolescents: A Meta-Analysis.Administration and policy in mental health · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy of a Web-Based Stress Management Intervention for Beginning Teachers on Reducing Stress and Mechanisms of Change: Randomized Controlled Trial.Journal of medical Internet research · 2025Trial
- Hair cortisol in a naturalistic sample of outpatients with depressive disorders - A secondary analysis of a randomized-controlled trial and a status update on psychoneuroendocrine markers for clinical practice.Comprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Association between trajectories of sleep quality and postpartum depression: a group-based trajectory model and computer-simulated network analysis.BMC medicine · 2026Article
- Associations of Emotion Regulation Difficulties, Psychological Well-Being, and Life Satisfaction with Suicidal Ideation and Suicidal Behaviour Among University Students in Indonesia: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare · 2026Article
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- Prevalence and correlates of emotion dysregulation among children and adolescents in Lebanon: results from a National Survey.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Emotion regulation and mental health: current evidence and beyond.World psychiatry : official journal of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) · 2024Article
- Efficacy of a smartphone-based Cognitive Bias Modification program for emotion regulation: A randomized-controlled crossover trial.Internet interventions · 2024Article
- Emotional regulation and suicidal ideation-Mediating roles of perceived social support and avoidant coping.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Non-randomised feasibility study of training workshops for Talking Therapies service high-intensity therapists to optimise depression and anxiety outcomes for individuals with co-morbid personality difficulties: a study protocol.Pilot and feasibility studies · 2023Article
- The Impact of Group Emotion Regulation Interventions on Emotion Regulation Ability: A Systematic Review.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Review
- The antidepressant effect of cognitive reappraisal training on individuals cognitively vulnerable to depression: Could cognitive bias be modified through the prefrontal-amygdala circuits?Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2022Article
- "I'll Worry About It Tomorrow" - Fostering Emotion Regulation Skills to Overcome Procrastination.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Emotion Regulation as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Cognitive Biases and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed, At-risk and Healthy Children and Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- The Clinical Relevance of Interdisciplinary Research on Affect Regulation in the Analytic Relationship.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- REMOTION Blended Transdiagnostic Intervention for Symptom Reduction and Improvement of Emotion Regulation in an Outpatient Psychotherapeutic Setting: Protocol for a Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial.JMIR research protocols · 2020Article
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Abstract
Deficits in general emotion regulation skills have been shown to be associated with various mental disorders. Thus, general affect-regulation training has been proposed as promising transdiagnostic approach to the treatment of psychopathology. In the present study, we aimed to evaluate the efficacy of a general affect-regulation as a stand-alone, group-based treatment for depression. For this purpose, we randomly assigned 218 individuals who met criteria for major depressive disorder (MDD) to the Affect Regulation Training (ART), to a waitlist control condition (WLC), or to a condition controlling for common factors (CFC). The primary outcome was the course of depressive symptom severity as assessed with the Hamilton Rating Scale for Depression and the Beck Depression Inventory. Multi-level analyses indicated that participation in ART was associated with a greater reduction of depressive symptom severity than was participation in WLC (d = 0.56), whereas the slight superiority of ART over CFC (d = 0.25) was not statistically significant. Mediation analyses indicated that changes in emotion regulation skills mediated the differences between ART/CFC and WLC. Thus, the findings provide evidence for enhancing emotion regulation skills as a common mechanism of change in psychological treatments for depression. The study was registered with ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT01330485) and was supported by grants from the German Research Association (DFG; BE 4510/3-1; HI 456/6-2). Future research should compare the (cost-) efficacy of ART with that of disorder-specific interventions.
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