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Emotion Regulation and the Anxiety Disorders: An Integrative Review
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The construct of emotion regulation has been increasingly investigated in the last decade, and this work has important implications for advancing anxiety disorder theory. This paper reviews research demonstrating that: 1) emotion (i.e., fear and anxiety) and emotion regulation are distinct, non-redundant, constructs that can be differentiated at the conceptual, behavioral, and neural levels of analysis; 2) emotion regulation can augment or diminish fear, depending on the emotion regulation strategy employed; and 3) measures of emotion regulation explain incremental variance in anxiety disorder symptoms above and beyond the variance explained by measures of emotional reactivity. The authors propose a model by which emotion regulation may function in the etiology of anxiety disorders. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research.
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“empirical research has clearly indicated that PD is related to various emotional dysregulations (Aldao et al., 2010; Cisler et al., 2010)”
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“This pattern of associations is consistent with previous reports of difficulties in emotion regulation (as assessed herein) being distinctively related to anxiety symptoms, even when depressive symptoms are controlled [35].”
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“Disrupted, or maladaptive, ER has been implicated as a mechanism underlying various psychiatric disorders, including depressive6,7 and anxiety8 disorders, and borderline personality disorder.9”
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“and are characterized by dysfunctional ER strategies (Cisler et al., 2010; Ziv et al., 2013; Jazaieri et al., 2014; Diefenbach et al., 2016).”
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- Authors
- Cisler, J. M., Olatunji, B. O., Feldner, M. T., & Forsyth, J. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Arkansas at Fayetteville (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- University at Albany, State University of New York (US)
- Corresponding author
- Cisler, Josh M.
- Venue
- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment
- Published
- 2009-09-16
- Volume
- 32
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 68-82
- ISSN
- 0164-0305 (ISSN-L)
- 0882-2689
- 1573-3505
- PMC
- PMC2901125
- OpenAlex
- W1996121462
- Cited by
- 607
- References
- 135
- Citations by year
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- FWCI
- 21.97
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (T32MH018869)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Keywords
- emotion regulation, anxiety disorders, fear, emotional reactivity, emotion regulation strategies, causes of anxiety
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