ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2021
Trajectory of emotion dysregulation in positive and negative affect across childhood predicts adolescent emotion dysregulation and overall functioning.
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- Understanding irritability through the lens of self-regulatory control processes in children and adolescents: a systematic review.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
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- Emotion Regulation Profiles Using Multiple Components and Contexts: Correlates and Consequences From Early Childhood to Preadolescence.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Using Mobile Assessments to Characterize Mental and Physical Health Behaviors in Youth: Protocol for a Pilot Intensive Longitudinal Study.JMIR research protocols · 2025Article
- Nonlinear trajectories of emotion dysregulation across the perinatal period: Associations with prenatal and birth experiences.Journal of affective disorders · 2025Article
- Brief, pragmatic measure of emotion dysregulation in young people - a preliminary validation of the BER-5.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2025Article
- Reconceptualising emotion dysregulation in the context of middle childhood: A scoping review of reviews.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- Prenatal Maternal Mindfulness as a Predictor of Infant Emerging Effortful Control and Negative Affect.Mindfulness · 2025Article
- Reactivity of Emotions in Adolescents - Caregivers' Tool (React): Development and Validation of a Novel Parent-Rated Measure for Assessing Emotional Dysregulation in Youth.Clinical neuropsychiatry · 2024Article
- Day-to-day bidirectional associations between sleep and emotion states in early childhood: Importance of end-of-day mood for sleep quality.Sleep health · 2024Article
- Explaining Brain-Behavior Relations: Inhibitory Control as an Intermediate Phenotype Between the N2 ERP and the Externalizing Spectrum in Childhood.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Aetiological developmental models of symptoms of mental disorders in children: are we focussing on the relevant aspects in relation to individual diagnosis and intervention?European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- The Emotion Dysregulation Inventory-Young Child: Psychometric Properties and Item Response Theory Calibration in 2- to 5-Year-Olds.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Article
- Review: Defining Positive Emotion Dysregulation: Integrating Temperamental and Clinical Perspectives.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2023Review
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Abstract
Emotion dysregulation is cross-diagnostic and impairing. Most research has focused on dysregulated expressions of negative affect, often measured as irritability, which is associated with multiple forms of psychopathology and predicts negative outcomes. However, the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) include both negative and positive valence systems. Emerging evidence suggests that dysregulated expressions of positive affect, or excitability, in early childhood predict later psychopathology and impairment above and beyond irritability. Typically, irritability declines from early through middle childhood; however, the developmental trajectory of excitability is unknown. The impact of excitability across childhood on later emotion dysregulation is also yet unknown. In a well-characterized, longitudinal sample of 129 children studied from ages 3 to 5.11 years through 14 to 19 years, enriched for early depression and disruptive symptoms, we assessed the trajectory of irritability and excitability using multilevel modeling and how components of these trajectories impact later emotion dysregulation. While irritability declines across childhood, excitability remains remarkably stable both within and across the group. Overall levels of excitability (excitability intercept) predict later emotion dysregulation as measured by parent and self-report and predict decreased functional magnetic resonance imaging activity in cognitive emotion regulation regions during an emotion regulation task. Irritability was not related to any dysregulation outcome above and beyond excitability.
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