SynthesisChild abuse & neglect2020
Effects of maltreatment on coping and emotion regulation in childhood and adolescence: A meta-analytic review.
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153 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Emotion regulation impairment across psychiatric disorders: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Translational psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- Emotional Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents With Psychiatric Disorders. A Narrative Review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Pooled it
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- Measures matter: assessing childhood maltreatment and emotion dysregulation in a transdiagnostic sample.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2026Article
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- Mapping links between childhood maltreatment and biopsychosocial health in pregnancy: a network analysis.Archives of women's mental health · 2026Article
- Shaping personality functioning: type and timing effects of childhood maltreatment on personality functioning.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Differential adolescent neurodevelopment of emotion processing across internalizing psychopathology and childhood adversity.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Exploring the mediating role of functional connectivity in the association between violence exposure and psychopathology during early adolescence.Brain and cognition · 2026Article
- The transdiagnostic network of childhood trauma, anxiety, and depression in college students: centrality of emotional neglect and the bridging function of emotional abuse.BMC psychiatry · 2026Article
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- Psychological and behavioral mechanisms linking childhood trauma profiles to voice-related distress in schizophrenia spectrum disorders: latent class, mediation, and conditional process analyses.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- Brain network centrality following stress in adults with major depressive disorder and childhood trauma.Neurobiology of stress · 2026Article
- The moderating effect of child abuse on the association between domestic violence and suicidal ideation/self-harm among Lebanese women.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Seeing the positive in the face of adversity: neurocognitive markers of risk and resilience in emotional conflict processing in children with maltreatment exposure.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
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Abstract
backgroundChild maltreatment is consistently linked to adverse mental and physical health problems, making the identification of risk and resilience processes crucial for prevention efforts. The ways that individuals cope and regulate emotions in response to stress may buffer against pre-existing risk, while deficits in these processes have the potential to amplify risk. Thus, a candidate mechanism to explain the association between early-life abuse and neglect and later maladjustment is the way in which previously-maltreated youth respond to stress throughout development.
objectiveThe current review provides a quantitative analysis of the impact of early-life maltreatment on coping and emotion regulation processes during childhood and adolescence (5-18 years).
methodsThirty-five studies (N = 11,344) met criteria for inclusion in the meta-analysis. Effect sizes were calculated between maltreatment and broad domains (e.g., "emotion dysregulation"), intermediate factors (e.g., "problem-focused coping"), and specific strategies (e.g., "emotional suppression") of coping and emotion regulation.
resultsMaltreatment was significantly related to decreased emotion regulation (r = -.24, p < .001) and increased emotion dysregulation (r = .28, p < .001) at the domain level. No significant findings emerged at the factor level. At the strategy level, maltreatment was significantly related to increased avoidance (r = .25, p < .001), emotional suppression (r = .24, p < .001), and emotional expression (r = .25, p < .001).
conclusionsResults indicate that maltreatment is broadly associated with poor emotion regulation as well as increased avoidance, emotional suppression, and expression of negative emotions in response to stress. Implications of these findings are discussed and an agenda for future research is proposed.
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