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Childhood maltreatment and emotion regulation in everyday life: An experience sampling study

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Miu, Andrei C., Bîlc, Mirela I., Szentágotai-Tătar, Aurora, Pop, Claudia Felicia, Ion, Andrei·2022·Scientific Reports
DOI 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2157579/v1PMC PMC10156801

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Childhood maltreatment is a major risk factor for psychopathology, and increasing evidence suggests that emotion regulation (ER) is one of the underlying mechanisms. However, most of this evidence comes from cross-sectional studies and single assessments of habitual ER strategies. In the present study, we investigated the relation between history of childhood maltreatment, positive and negative affect, and multiple dimensions of spontaneous ER (strategy use, ER success, effort, and goals) in everyday life, using experience sampling method (3 assessments/day, for 10 consecutive days), in a sample of healthy volunteers (N = 118). Multilevel modeling results indicated that childhood maltreatment was associated with lower positive affect and higher negative affect. Childhood maltreatment was also related to lower use of reappraisal and savoring (but not suppression, rumination and distraction), reduced ER success (but not effort), as well as lower levels of and higher within-individual variability of hedonic (but not instrumental) ER goals. These results provide ecological evidence that individuals with a history of childhood maltreatment are characterized by differences in multiple ER dimensions.

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Figure 1 The association between childhood maltreatment and positive affect (A) and negative affect (B). CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.
Figure 1 The association between childhood maltreatment and positive affect (A) and negative affect (B). CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 2 The association between childhood maltreatment savoring (A) and reappraisal (B). CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.
Figure 2 The association between childhood maltreatment savoring (A) and reappraisal (B). CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.CC BY · PubMed Central
Figure 3 The association between childhood maltreatment and hedonic emotion regulation goals (A) and emotion regulation success (B). Abbreviation: CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.
Figure 3 The association between childhood maltreatment and hedonic emotion regulation goals (A) and emotion regulation success (B). Abbreviation: CTQ, Childhood Trauma Questionnaire.CC BY · PubMed Central

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Metadata

Authors
Miu, A. C., Bîlc, M. I., Szentágotai-Tătar, A., Pop, C. F., & Ion, A.
Affiliations
  • Babeș-Bolyai University (RO)
  • Iuliu Hațieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy (RO)
  • University of Bucharest (RO)
Corresponding author
Szentágotai-Tătar, Aurora
ORCID
Venue
Scientific Reports
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
Published
2022-10-19
Volume
13
Issue
1
Pages
7214-7214
ISSN
2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.21203/rs.3.rs-2157579/v1
PMC
PMC10156801
OpenAlex
W4367856374
Cited by
42
References
1
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2026: 16 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 1
FWCI
12.24
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Scientific Reports (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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Funders
Unitatea Executiva pentru Finantarea Invatamantului Superior, a Cercetarii, Dezvoltarii si Inovarii (PN-III-P1–1.1-TE-2019-1243, PN-III-P4-ID, PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020, PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2894, PN- III -P1-1, PN-III-P1-1.1, PN-III-P4-ID-PCE-2020-2609)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Abuse and Trauma
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Child Welfare and Adoption
Keywords
child abuse, emotion regulation, everyday life, positive affect, negative affect, cognitive reappraisal, savoring, emotion regulation goals, within-person variability, rumination, suppression, distraction
MeSH terms
Ecological Momentary Assessment, Emotional Regulation, Child, Child Abuse, Emotions, Humans, Psychopathology, Risk Factors

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