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ReviewAdolescent research review2024

Emotion Controllability Beliefs and Young People's Anxiety and Depression Symptoms: A Systematic Review.

Matthew P Somerville, Helen MacIntyre, Amy Harrison, Iris B Mauss

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Improving Mental Health in Adolescent Girls via a Randomized Trial of an Emotion Mindset Intervention.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2026
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4 authors.

Matthew P SomervilleDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3460-4369
Helen MacIntyreDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK.
Amy HarrisonDepartment of Psychology and Human Development, UCL Institute of Education, London, UK.
Iris B MaussDepartment of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, USA.

Funding

Wellcome Trust 090207
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Emotion regulation is a powerful predictor of youth mental health and a crucial ingredient of interventions. A growing body of evidence indicates that the beliefs individuals hold about the extent to which emotions are controllable (emotion controllability beliefs) influence both the degree and the ways in which they regulate emotions. A systematic review was conducted that investigated the associations between emotion controllability beliefs and youth anxiety and depression symptoms. The search identified 21 peer-reviewed publications that met the inclusion criteria. Believing that emotions are relatively controllable was associated with fewer anxiety and depression symptoms, in part because these beliefs were associated with more frequent use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies. These findings support theoretical models linking emotion controllability beliefs with anxiety and depression symptoms via emotion regulation strategies that target emotional experience, like reappraisal. Taken together, the review findings demonstrate that emotion controllability beliefs matter for youth mental health. Understanding emotion controllability beliefs is of prime importance for basic science and practice, as it will advance understanding of mental health and provide additional targets for managing symptoms of anxiety and depression in young people.

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Adolescent mental healthAnxietyDepressionEmotion controllability beliefsEmotion regulation

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PMID38410118
PMCPMC7615668

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