Emotion Regulation Predicts Anxiety Over a Five-Year Interval: A Cross-Lagged Panel Analysis

Abstract

General ER skills may play an important role in the development and maintenance of anxiety disorders.

Emotion regulation mediates the effect of childhood trauma on depression

“…The ERSQ additionally provides a total score for general emotion regulation, calculated as the average score across all emotion regulation skills. Previous studies have demonstrated sufficient retest reliability; good internal consistency; good factorial, convergent, and discriminant validity; and significant sensitivity to change for all single skills of the ERSQ (Berking et al, 2008a;Berking and Znoj, 2008, 2010Ebert et al, 2013;Wirtz et al, 2014). In the present study, the ERSQ total score displayed very good internal consistency (Cronbach's α¼.95) and the individual ERSQ skills displayed good internal consistencies with alphas ranging from 0.76 (sensations) to 0.85 (clarity).…”

Emotional reactivity and executive control: A pathway of risk for the development of childhood worry

“…Parental reports of emotionally reactive temperament shared a significant relation with child reports of worry symptoms. While our study was cross-sectional, longitudinal studies have identified temperament as a risk factor in the later development of anxiety symptoms (Karevold, Røysamb, Ystrom, & Mathiesen, 2009;Wirtz, Hofmann, Riper, & Berking, 2014), and our findings are in agreement with these studies. Specifically, emotionally reactive temperaments, which can be identified as early as infancy, predict worry symptoms in adolescence, suggesting a causal pathway (Kagan, Snidman, Kahn, & Towsley, 2007).…”

Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Model of Mood and Anxiety Disorders

“…Recently, authors have explored the role of emotion regulation and dysregulation in emotional disorders (Aldao, Nolen-Hoeksema, & Schweizer, 2010), and especially mood and anxiety disorders (Amstadter, 2008; Cisler, Olatunji, Feldner, & Forsyth, 2010; Berking, Ebert, Cuijpers, & Hofmann, 2013; Berking, Wirtz, Svaldi, & Hofmann, 2014; Hofmann, Sawyer, Fang, & Asnaani, 2012; Mennin, Heimberg, Turk, & Fresco, 2005; Wirtz, Hofmann, Riper, & Berking, 2014). Experimental studies have shown that participants with anxiety and mood disorders generally judge their negative emotions in response to a distressing film as less acceptable and tend to suppress their emotions to a greater extent than nonanxious participants (Campbell-Sills, Barlow, & Hofmann, 2006a).…”