The impact of self-reported childhood trauma on emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder and major depression

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Title:	The impact of self-reported childhood trauma on emotion regulation in borderline personality disorder and major depression
Creators Name:	Carvalho Fernando, S., Beblo, T., Schlosser, N., Terfehr, K., Otte, C., Loewe, B., Wolf, O.T., Spitzer, C., Driessen, M. and Wingenfeld, K.
Abstract:	Early life stress is said to play a critical role in the development of borderline personality disorder (BPD) and major depressive disorder (MDD), but the underlying mediating factors remain uncertain. This study aimed to investigate self-reported childhood trauma, emotion regulation difficulties, and their associations in a sample of BPD (n = 49) and MDD (n = 48) patients and healthy control participants (n = 63). Multiple regressions were used to evaluate the impact of the quality and severity of self-reported childhood trauma on self-reported emotion regulation. The results supported an association between self-reported maltreatment experiences, especially emotional abuse and neglect, and emotion regulation difficulties. Additional analyses showed that emotion regulation difficulties influence the association between self-reported emotional abuse and acute symptomatology in the BPD subgroup. Emotion regulation difficulties may be 1 pathway through which early life stress, particularly emotional abuse, increases the risk for developing BPD symptomatology.
Keywords:	Childhood Trauma, Emotion Regulation, Borderline Personality Disorder, Major Depression
Source:	Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
ISSN:	1529-9732
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Volume:	15
Number:	4
Page Range:	384-401
Date:	30 June 2014
Additional Information:	Copyright © Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
Official Publication:	https://doi.org/10.1080/15299732.2013.863262
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