The Mediating Effect of Adaptive and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Executive Functioning Impairment and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents
The Mediating Effect of Adaptive and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Executive Functioning Impairment and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents
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https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.western.edu/doi/full/10.1080/09297049.2016.1212986?scroll=top&needAccess=true
In this study, authors Laura Wante, Amy Mezulis, Marie-Lotte Van Beveren and Caroline Braet note the growing body of evidence suggesting the connection between stunted executive functioning (EF) skills development during adolescence and the onset of depression. While plenty of other articles have studied this connection, few have looked closely at the underlying mechanisms of the connection, such as maladaptive emotion regulators. Therefore, they focus specifically in the onset of maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies to compensate for lack of EF as a means of making one vulnerable to depression. An example of a maladaptive emotion regulator is rumination.
One thing that I found particularly interesting about this article is the authors' mention of an increase in depression among adults if depression was something that they had experienced in adolescence.
The authors studied 579 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 16, a much larger sample size than the article that I previously reviewed. A wide range of depressive symptoms were included among the participants. The authors also drew various comparisons to maladaptive emotion regulators to adaptive emotion regulators. Two maladaptive regulation strategies were rumination and withdrawal, and some adaptive regulation strategies were cognitive reappraisal, acceptance, and problem solving, among others.
The author's main hypothesis was that the there would be a relationship between EF impairment and depressive symptoms and that it would be mediated by maladaptive and adaptive ER strategies. The results of the study strongly support their hypothesis.
Wante, L., Mezulis, A., Van Beveren, M-L., Braet, C. (2017) The Mediating Effect of Adaptive and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Executive Functioning Impairment and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents, Child Neuropsychology, 23:8, 935-953. https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.western.edu/doi/full/10.1080/09297049.2016.1212986?scroll=top&needAccess=true
Link to article:
https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.western.edu/doi/full/10.1080/09297049.2016.1212986?scroll=top&needAccess=true
In this study, authors Laura Wante, Amy Mezulis, Marie-Lotte Van Beveren and Caroline Braet note the growing body of evidence suggesting the connection between stunted executive functioning (EF) skills development during adolescence and the onset of depression. While plenty of other articles have studied this connection, few have looked closely at the underlying mechanisms of the connection, such as maladaptive emotion regulators. Therefore, they focus specifically in the onset of maladaptive emotion regulation (ER) strategies to compensate for lack of EF as a means of making one vulnerable to depression. An example of a maladaptive emotion regulator is rumination.
One thing that I found particularly interesting about this article is the authors' mention of an increase in depression among adults if depression was something that they had experienced in adolescence.
The authors studied 579 adolescents between the ages of 10 and 16, a much larger sample size than the article that I previously reviewed. A wide range of depressive symptoms were included among the participants. The authors also drew various comparisons to maladaptive emotion regulators to adaptive emotion regulators. Two maladaptive regulation strategies were rumination and withdrawal, and some adaptive regulation strategies were cognitive reappraisal, acceptance, and problem solving, among others.
The author's main hypothesis was that the there would be a relationship between EF impairment and depressive symptoms and that it would be mediated by maladaptive and adaptive ER strategies. The results of the study strongly support their hypothesis.
Wante, L., Mezulis, A., Van Beveren, M-L., Braet, C. (2017) The Mediating Effect of Adaptive and Maladaptive Emotion Regulation Strategies on Executive Functioning Impairment and Depressive Symptoms Among Adolescents, Child Neuropsychology, 23:8, 935-953. https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.western.edu/doi/full/10.1080/09297049.2016.1212986?scroll=top&needAccess=true
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