Pham Khanh Linh Vu, Karen Ollrogge, Luisa Daldrup, Stephan Köhler
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Background: Emotion dysregulation is strongly linked to depressive disorders, yet distinctions between interpersonal and intrapersonal forms remain underexplored in daily life. This study examines emotion dysregulation in depression during close interpersonal interactions, comparing individuals with depression and healthy controls (HC), and exploring associations with alexithymia and childhood maltreatment.
Methods: Participants (18 HC, 17 with depression) reported three emotion regulation (ER) strategies (cognitive reappraisal, social sharing, suppression) during interpersonal interactions over 2 weeks (3 prompts/day). Group (depression vs. HC) was the independent variable, and ER strategies the dependent variables. Alexithymia, childhood maltreatment, and depressive symptoms were assessed at baseline. Data were analyzed using two-level hierarchical linear modeling.
Results: No group differences in ER strategy use were observed, and depressive symptom severity was not associated with strategy intensity. Post-hoc analyses showed that alexithymia was positively associated with depressive severity across the full sample and negatively associated with social sharing within the depressed group. Cognitive reappraisal showed heterogeneous associations with childhood maltreatment subdomains.
Conclusion: Interpersonal emotion dysregulation did not differentiate depressed from healthy individuals. Given the small sample size, these null findings should be interpreted cautiously. Nevertheless, alexithymia and childhood maltreatment appear relevant for ER in close relationships, highlighting their importance in depression research.
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Frontiers in Psychology is the largest journal in its field, publishing rigorously peer-reviewed research across the psychological sciences, from clinical research to cognitive science, from perception to consciousness, from imaging studies to human factors, and from animal cognition to social psychology. Field Chief Editor Axel Cleeremans at the Free University of Brussels is supported by an outstanding Editorial Board of international researchers. This multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating scientific knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, clinicians and the public worldwide. The journal publishes the best research across the entire field of psychology. Today, psychological science is becoming increasingly important at all levels of society, from the treatment of clinical disorders to our basic understanding of how the mind works. It is highly interdisciplinary, borrowing questions from philosophy, methods from neuroscience and insights from clinical practice - all in the goal of furthering our grasp of human nature and society, as well as our ability to develop new intervention methods.
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