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Emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between trauma exposure, post-migration living difficulties and psychological outcomes in traumatized refugees
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Background While emotion dysregulation represents an important mechanism underpinning psychological responses to trauma, little research has investigated this in refugees. In the current study, we examined the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in the relationship between refugee experiences (trauma and living difficulties) and psychological outcomes.Methods Participants were 134 traumatized treatment-seeking refugees who completed measures indexing trauma exposure, post-migration living difficulties, difficulties in emotion regulation, posttraumatic stress disorder, depression, and explosive anger.Results Findings revealed distinctive patterns of emotion dysregulation associated with each of these psychological disorders. Results also indicated that emotion regulation difficulties mediated the association between both trauma and psychological symptoms, and living difficulties and psychological symptoms.Limitations Limitations include a cross-sectional design and the use of measures that had not been validated across all cultural groups in this study.Conclusions These findings underscore the key role of emotion dysregulation in psychological responses of refugees, and highlight potential directions for treatment interventions for traumatized refugees.
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- Authors
- Nickerson, A., Bryant, R. A., Schnyder, U., Schick, M., Mueller, J., & Morina, N.
- Affiliations
- UNSW Sydney (AU)
- University Hospital Zurich (CH)
- Corresponding author
- Nickerson, Angela
- Venue
- Journal of Affective Disorders
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2015-03
- Volume
- 173
- Pages
- 185-192
- ISSN
- 0165-0327 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1973884002
- Cited by
- 141
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 7 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 13 · 2021: 20 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 14 · 2018: 10 · 2017: 9 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 2
- FWCI
- 8.26
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- doi.org
- Locations
- Journal of Affective Disorders (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (acceptedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) (submittedVersion)
- Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich)
- Funders
- Parrotia Foundation
- Swiss Federal Office for Migration
- Swiss Federal Office for Health (12.005187)
- National Health and Medical Research Council Clinical Early Career Fellowship
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Migration, Health and Trauma
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
- Keywords
- emotional dysregulation, trauma exposure, refugees, post-migration living difficulties, post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, mediation, psychological outcomes
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Anger, Cross-Sectional Studies, Culture, Depressive Disorder, Emotions, Female, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, Refugees, Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
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