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. 2013 Mar-Apr;84(2):512-27.
doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2012.01857.x. Epub 2012 Oct 3.

A longitudinal study of emotion regulation, emotion lability-negativity, and internalizing symptomatology in maltreated and nonmaltreated children

Jungmeen Kim-Spoon  1 , Dante Cicchetti, Fred A Rogosch
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A longitudinal study of emotion regulation, emotion lability-negativity, and internalizing symptomatology in maltreated and nonmaltreated children

Jungmeen Kim-Spoon et al. Child Dev. 2013 Mar-Apr.

Abstract

The longitudinal contributions of emotion regulation and emotion lability-negativity to internalizing symptomatology were examined in a low-income sample (171 maltreated and 151 nonmaltreated children, from age 7 to 10 years). Latent difference score models indicated that for both maltreated and nonmaltreated children, emotion regulation was a mediator between emotion lability-negativity and internalizing symptomatology, whereas emotion lability-negativity was not a mediator between emotion regulation and internalizing symptomatology. Early maltreatment was associated with high emotion lability-negativity (age 7) that contributed to poor emotion regulation (age 8), which in turn was predictive of increases in internalizing symptomatology (from age 8 to 9). The results imply important roles of emotion regulation in the development of internalizing symptomatology, especially for children with high emotion lability-negativity.

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Figure 1
Latent Difference Score Model of Emotion Lability/Negativity Predicting Internalizing Symptomatology, Mediated by Emotion Regulation. Note. Unstandardized parameter estimates (SE) are presented. For clarify of presentation, residual variances and concurrent correlations among emotion lability/negativity, emotion regulation, and internalizing symptomatology are not shown. Diff = latent difference score factor; e = measurement error. Model fit: χ2 = 92.10, df = 58, p = .004, RMSEA = .04, CFI = .96. * p < .05.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Latent Difference Score Model of Maltreatment Effects on Emotion Lability/Negativity, Emotion Regulation, and Internalizing Symptomatology. Note. Unstandardized parameter estimates (SE) are presented for high emotion lability/negativity/low emotion lability/negativity groups. For clarity of presentation, residual variances, the effects of gender and ethnicity covariates, and correlations among emotion lability/negativity, emotion regulation, and internalizing symptomatology are not shown. For the effects of maltreatment subtypes on age 8 and age 9 emotion lability/negativity and emotion regulation and on diff1/2/3 were not significant, only significant paths are presented. Diff = latent difference score factor; e = measurement error. Model fit: χ2 = 87.20, df = 27, p = .000, RMSEA = .08, CFI = .94. † p = .05, * p < .05.
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