What is it about?
This study suggests that the ability to regulate, or inhibit, responses to task-irrelevant threatening information is an important risk factor for internalizing symptoms following exposure to child maltreatment. Adolescent girls with greater regulatory problems are at substantially greater risk of experiencing internalizing symptoms compared to those who regulate their responses to threateninginformation more efficiently.
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Why is it important?
Our study suggest affective inhibitory control to represent both a risk and protective factor for internalizing problems in girls. The presentfindings underscore theoretical assumptions and previous empirical findings on the important interplay between child maltreatment, internalizing problems, and cognitive components of emotion regulation.
Perspectives
I hope this paper will contribute to a better understanding on how a spesific component in the process of emotion regulation may be involved in symptom development following child maltreatment. Our study also shows that it is possible to use an objective behavioral marker of emotion regulation in a national-representative survey.
Sjur Sætren
Stavanger Universitetssykehus
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This page is a summary of: Affective inhibitory control and risk for internalizing problems in adolescents exposed to child maltreatment: A population-based study., Journal of Abnormal Psychology, February 2021, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/abn0000582.
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