SynthesisJournal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry2023
Systematic Review: Questionnaire-Based Measurement of Emotion Dysregulation in Children and Adolescents.
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- Neurofunctional Correlates of Emotional Dysregulation: Systematic Review and ALE Meta-Analysis.Brain and behavior · 2026Pooled it
- Annual Research Review: What processes are dysregulated among emotionally dysregulated youth? - a systematic review.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Pooled it
- Father involvement and emotion regulation during early childhood: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2024Pooled it
- Evidence Base Update on the Assessment of Irritability, Anger, and Aggression in Youth.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53Pooled it
- When Teachers Mentalize: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Teacher Responses to Disruptive Classroom Behaviour.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The conceptual landscape of self-regulation in neurodevelopmental conditions: an overview of reviews.Nature human behaviour · 2026Review
- The Role of Emotion Dysregulation, Impulsiveness and Rumination in Psychopathology: Evidence from an Italian Sample of Adolescents and Young Adults.Brain sciences · 2026Article
- Emotion Regulation Mediates the Link Between Exposure to Childhood Adversity and Transdiagnostic Symptom Domains in Youth.JAACAP open · 2026Article
- A dual-fMRI investigation of interpersonal emotion regulation: Predicting strategy selection and implementation success from effective brain connectivity.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Internalizing Symptoms in Ethno-Racially Minoritized Youth: Exploring the Influence of Emotion Dysregulation.Child psychiatry and human development · 2025Article
- On the regulation and dysregulation of emotions in child psychopathology: commentary on Blader et al. (2025).Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Emotion Regulation in Pediatric Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder and Related Interventions: A Scoping Review.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
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- Research Agenda in Childhood Impairing Emotional Outbursts: A Report of the AACAP Presidential Taskforce on Emotional Dysregulation.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Emotion dysregulation in youths with obsessive-compulsive disorder and its implication for treatment - An exploratory study from the TECTO trial: A protocol and statistical analysis plan.Contemporary clinical trials communications · 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
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Abstract
objectiveEmotion dysregulation, understood as a critical transdiagnostic factor in the etiology and maintenance of psychopathology, is among the most common reasons youth are referred for psychiatric care. The present systematic review examined 2 decades of questionnaires used to assess emotion (dys)regulation in youth.
methodUsing "emotion (dys)regulation," PsycINFO, PubMed, and Web of Science were searched for empirical, peer-reviewed journal studies published before May 2021 in clinical and/or nonclinical youth. A total of 510 studies met selection criteria and were included.
resultsAcross the literature, 115 distinct self-, parent-, or other informant-reported measures of emotion (dys)regulation were used in cross-sectional (67.1%), longitudinal (22.4%), intervention (9.0%), and mixed design (1.6%) studies. Out of 115 different questionnaires, a subset of 5 measures of emotion (dys)regulation were used in most of the literature (ie, 59.6% of studies). Moreover, reviewed studies examined emotion (dys)regulation in more than 20 distinct clinical groups, further supporting emotion dysregulation as a transdiagnostic construct.
conclusionNumerous themes emerged. Broadly, measures differed in their ability to capture internal vs external components of emotion dysregulation, the use of adaptive vs maladaptive responses, and subjective experiences more broadly vs particular affective states. These findings serve to guide researchers and clinicians in selecting appropriate measurement tools for assessing specific domains of child and adolescent emotion dysregulation.
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