An initial examination of emotion regulation and obsessive compulsive symptoms

Stern, Max; Nota, Jacob A.; Heimberg, Richard G.; Holaway, Robert M.; Coles, Meredith E.

doi:10.1016/j.jocrd.2014.02.005

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“…The findings of both studies are also in line with mindfulness and acceptance‐based therapies that suggest a central transdiagnostic role of emotion regulation difficulties in psychopathology. Our findings are also consistent with previous studies on nonclinical samples that have found positive associations between OCD severity and emotion regulation difficulties and, more specifically, with difficulties in accepting and tolerating negative emotions (Fergus & Bardeen, ; Robinson & Freeston, ; Smith et al., ; Stern et al., ).…”

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“…Recently, Stern, Nota, Heimberg, Holaway, and Coles () found that aspects of emotion regulation difficulties (including poorer understanding of and a greater fear of emotions) were associated with higher levels of obsessive‐compulsive symptoms in a nonclinical sample. Likewise, Fergus and Bardeen () found that OCD symptom severity in a community sample was associated with a wide range of emotion regulation difficulties as measured by the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz & Roemer, ) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ; Gross & John, ).…”

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“…The increased amygdala under negative emotional distraction is consitent with a previous finding on higher level of fear of negative emotions in people with hightened obsessive-compulsvie symptoms (Stern et al, 2014).…”

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Disruption of effective connectivity from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to the orbitofrontal cortex by negative emotional distraction in obsessive–compulsive disorder

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BackgroundObsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) has been associated with abnormal cognitive and emotional functions and these dysfunctions may be dependent on the disruption of dynamic interactions within neuronal circuits associated with emotion regulation. Although several studies have shown the aberrant cognitive–affective processing in OCD patients, little is known about how to characterize effective connectivity of the disrupted neural interactions. In the present study, we applied effective connectivity analysis using dynamic causal modeling to explore the disturbed neural interactions in OCD patients.MethodA total of 20 patients and 21 matched healthy controls performed a delayed-response working memory task under emotional or non-emotional distraction while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging.ResultsDuring the delay interval under negative emotional distraction, both groups showed similar patterns of activations in the amygdala. However, under negative emotional distraction, the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) exhibited significant differences between groups. Bayesian model averaging indicated that the connection from the DLPFC to the OFC was negatively modulated by negative emotional distraction in patients, when compared with healthy controls (p < 0.05, Bonferroni-corrected).ConclusionsExaggerated recruitment of the DLPFC may induce the reduction of top-down prefrontal control input over the OFC, leading to abnormal cortico-cortical interaction. This disrupted cortico-cortical interaction under negative emotional distraction may be responsible for dysfunctions of cognitive and emotional processing in OCD patients and may be a component of the pathophysiology associated with OCD.

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“…This also exacerbates the symptoms of OCD (12,13). In this regard, some studies have shown direct and indirect effects of family functioning, including criticism (14) and expressed emotion (15,16) on pediatric OCD.…”

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External criticism by parents and obsessive beliefs in adolescents in Iran: the mediating role of emotional self-regulation

Halvaiepour

Nosratabadi

Khanzadeh

2016

International Journal of Adolescent Medicine and Health

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Background: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is considered to be a significant impairment in childhood and adolescence. According to cognitive theories, parents' external criticism and emotional self-regulation are among the variables that can directly or indirectly affect obsessive beliefs. Objective: The present study aimed to examine the mediating role of emotional self-regulation in the relationship between parents' external criticism and obsessive beliefs in adolescents. Methods: In this study, 547 high school students aged between 15 and 18 years were selected using multi-stage cluster random sampling. An obsessive beliefs questionnaire-child version (OBQ-CV), a self-regulatory orientations scale, and a perceived criticism questionnaire were used to collect data. Pearson's correlation was used to investigate the relationship between the study variables. For analysis of the mediation model, structural equation modeling using the AMOS software was employed. Results: The fitness indices for the four-factor structure of the OBQ, two-factor structure of the emotional self-regulation instrument, and single-factor structure of parents' external criticism were reported as favorable [root mean square error of approximation (RMSEA) < 0.1]. External criticism was associated only indirectly with obsessive beliefs through emotional self-regulation. The two variables of emotional self-regulation and external criticism explained 47% of the variance in obsessive beliefs. Conclusion: This study showed that self-regulation can mediate in the relationship between parents' external

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An initial examination of emotion regulation and obsessive compulsive symptoms

Cited by 60 publications

References 39 publications

Emotion regulation difficulties in obsessive‐compulsive disorder

Emotion regulation difficulties in obsessive‐compulsive disorder

Disruption of effective connectivity from the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex to the orbitofrontal cortex by negative emotional distraction in obsessive–compulsive disorder

External criticism by parents and obsessive beliefs in adolescents in Iran: the mediating role of emotional self-regulation

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