The Relationship between Insecure Attachment to Depression: Mediating Role of Sleep and Cognitive Reappraisal

Liu, Yige; Li, Hongfan; Xu, Xiayue; Li, Yukun; Wang, Zhu-Tao; Zhu, Huan; Zhang, Xia; Jiang, Shan; Li, Naling; Gu, Shanqiang; Wang, Fushun; Huang, Jason H.

doi:10.1155/2020/1931737

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“…Regarding the literature described, our findings are consistent with, and extend, those reported by Liu et al (2020) and Warnke et al (2017). Like them, we found that emotion regulation was indirectly (via poor sleep quality) related to the presence of more depressive symptoms.…”

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“…However, to our knowledge, only two previous studies have investigated whether associations between emotion dysregulation and clinical symptoms are mediated by sleep disruption. 1 Liu et al (2020; N = 755 university students) found that less frequent use of cognitive reappraisal strategies was indirectly (via poor sleep quality) related to presence of depressive symptoms. Warnke et al (2017; N = 300 community-dwelling volunteers) found that the association between experiential avoidance and depressive symptoms was mediated by sleep quality.…”

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Influence of poor emotion regulation on disrupted sleep and subsequent psychiatric symptoms in university students

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Lewis

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South African Journal of Psychology

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Previous studies in the neuroscience and psychology literature works suggest that poor sleep quality is associated with emotion dysregulation, and that poor sleep quality and emotion dysregulation are, independently, associated with the presence and severity of psychiatric symptoms. However, no previous study has examined simultaneous relations among multiple different emotion regulation strategies, sleep quality, and mental health outcomes. Such investigations are particularly important given the extensive literature describing the prevalence and manifestation of poor mental health outcomes in university students. This study investigated the influence of both maladaptive (avoidance and impulsivity) and adaptive (cognitive reappraisal) emotion regulation strategies on sleep quality and, subsequently, on the degree of depressive and posttraumatic symptomatology in a sample of South African university students ( N = 336). Participants completed self-report instruments measuring their tendency to use avoidance, cognitive reappraisal, and impulsivity; their sleep quality; their accessibility to social support; and their number of depressive and posttraumatic symptoms. Structural equation modelling showed that more use of avoidance and impulsivity and less use of cognitive reappraisal negatively affected sleep quality, which, in turn, was associated with the presence of more depressive and more posttraumatic symptoms. Hence, our findings suggest that emotion regulation indirectly exerted its influence on the manifestation of psychiatric symptoms through sleep. We conclude that interventions targeted at improving sleep quality may prove beneficial in lessening the burden of depressive and posttraumatic symptoms in university students.

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Influence of poor emotion regulation on disrupted sleep and subsequent psychiatric symptoms in university students

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“…The neural mechanisms of the affective disorders (such as depression, anxiety, and functional neurological disorders) are yet to be uncovered [ 2 , 3 ]. The best way to study the affective disorders is through the basic emotional theory, which suggested that basic emotions are due to monoamines and peptides [ 4 , 5 ]. A widespread assumption in emotional theories is that human emotions are developed from a limited number of basic emotions, which are called basic , primary , or fundamental emotions [ 6 – 8 ].…”

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Neurotransmitters and Electrophysiological Changes Might Work as Biomarkers for Diagnosing Affective Disorders

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Feng

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Affective disorders are the leading causes of human disability worldwide; however, the diagnosis is still hard to define, because emotion is the least study subjects in psychology. Recent emotional studies suggest that human emotions are developed from basic emotions, which are evolved for fundamental human lives. Even though most psychologists agree upon the idea that there are some basic emotions, there is little agreement on how many emotions are basic, which emotions are basic, and why they are basic. In our previous papers, we suggested that there are three basic emotions: joy, fear, and disgust. These basic emotions depend on the peptides and monoamines: dopamine-joy (peptides-reward), norepinephrine-fear (anger), and serotonin-disgust (sadness). Further tests with event-related potentials (ERP) found that joy, fear, and disgust showed the fastest response compared with other emotions, suggesting that they are fast automatic responses, which confirmed that these three emotions are prototypical emotions. Other basic emotions, anger and sadness, are due to object induced behaviors instead of sensation of object, so they developed secondary to prototypical emotions. Thus, we concluded that only joy, fear, and disgust are prototypical emotions, which can mix into other emotions, like the primary colors. In all, the neural substrates for all emotions, including the affections, are possibly monoamine neuromodulators: joy-dopamine (peptides), fear (anger)–norepinephrine, and disgust-serotonin. We hope these basic emotional studies will offer some neural mechanisms for emotional processing and shed lights on the diagnosis of affective disorders.

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“…Second, mindfulness can also help cognitive reappraisal, because an individual can treat the worries easily when they are relaxed with deep breathing. Previously, we have hypothesized that the human being has three primary kinds of core affects: reward, punishment, and stress [ 50 ], and they exclude from each other [ 50 ]. The individuals can have a good mood by focusing on positive emotions (reward) to transfer attention from stressful thoughts.…”

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The Mediating Effects of Coping Style on the Effects of Breath Count Mindfulness Training on Depressive Symptoms among International Students in China

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Mindfulness training has gained popularity in the scientific field and has been proposed as an efficient way for emotional regulation. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is designed especially for depressive people in reducing risk of depression relapse and is recommended in national guidelines as a treatment choice for relapse prevention in recurrent depression. The aim of the current study was to investigate the effects of mindfulness training on depressive symptoms of international students and probe into the mediating role of mindfulness in stressful events and depression. In addition, we introduced a new kind of mindfulness training, the breathing exercise-based mindfulness training, which is based on the integration of Buddhism and Daoism. Self-report questionnaires assessing the coping style, abnormal depressive behavior, and stressful live events were completed in 260 international students in China (mean age=21.4 years). The results showed that (1) many international students showed depression symptoms, (2) stressful life events play a completely mediating role in the initiation of depression and anxiety, and (3) mindfulness training for 8 weeks significantly reduced the depressive symptoms, and it was also related to a positive coping style. This study has certain theoretical significance in exploring the mechanism of the occurrence and development of depression among international students and provides useful tools for this special group of international students. In addition, the international students can also learn Chinese culture through the training. These findings indicate that mindfulness training and positive coping style are interrelated with treating depressive symptoms for international students.

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The Relationship between Insecure Attachment to Depression: Mediating Role of Sleep and Cognitive Reappraisal

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Influence of poor emotion regulation on disrupted sleep and subsequent psychiatric symptoms in university students

Influence of poor emotion regulation on disrupted sleep and subsequent psychiatric symptoms in university students

Neurotransmitters and Electrophysiological Changes Might Work as Biomarkers for Diagnosing Affective Disorders

The Mediating Effects of Coping Style on the Effects of Breath Count Mindfulness Training on Depressive Symptoms among International Students in China

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