Abstract Maladaptive daydreaming is an excessive form of which causes significant distress and functional impairment to the affected individuals. Research on maladaptive has intensified in recent years, but its pathogenesis not yet been clearly elucidated. The aim study was examine attachment characteristics difficulties emotion regulation among normal daydreamers. 717 individuals were recruite...

BACKGROUND Impaired capacity for emotion regulation is associated with a broad spectrum of psychiatric disturbances; however, little is known about treatment response in emotion regulation functioning among patients with severe mental illness. This study examined treatment response and the role that experiential avoidance plays in mediating the relationship between attachment anxiety/avoidance ...

People with eating disorders (ED) have difficulties regulating their emotions adaptively. Little is known about differences and similarities between different types of ED and how these regulation difficulties relate to other emotional problems. The present study examines maladaptive (suppression) and adaptive (cognitive reappraisal) emotion regulation strategies in women with different ED and r...

Background: Clients visiting methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) clinics frequently relapse during the course of treatment. The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between family communication patterns and resiliency and craving for drugs through the mediatory role of difficulty in cognitive emotion regulation among clients being treated by methadone. Methods: It was a descri...

To develop and refine interventions to prevent youth suicide, knowledge is needed about specific processes that reduce risk at a population level. Using a cross-sectional design, the present study tested hypotheses regarding associations between self-reported suicide attempts, emotion regulation difficulties, and positive youth-adult relationships among 7,978 high-school students (48.6% male, 4...

Recent studies have demonstrated that individuals with a history of uncued panic attacks exhibit heightened difficulties in emotion regulation, including experiential avoidance, emotional non-acceptance, and lack of emotional clarity. The purpose of this study was to extend these findings by examining whether the fear of bodily sensations predicted the presence of experiential avoidance and emo...

The Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS; Gratz and Roemer, Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 26:41–54, 2004) is a popular multidimensional self-report measure of emotion regulation. The present study sought to examine the latent factor structure of the DERS. An examination of latent factor intercorrelations and a higher-order confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) sugg...