Raymond P Tucker, Jessica L Gerner, Sean M Mitchell, Nicolas Oakey-Frost, Emma H Moscardini, Sarah Pardue-Bourgeois, Daniel W Capron, Ryan M Hill
{"title":"Expanding the Measurement of Suicidal Desire: The Creation and Evaluation of the Suicidal Desire Variability Scale in Three Adult Samples.","authors":"Raymond P Tucker, Jessica L Gerner, Sean M Mitchell, Nicolas Oakey-Frost, Emma H Moscardini, Sarah Pardue-Bourgeois, Daniel W Capron, Ryan M Hill","doi":"10.1007/s10862-026-10286-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-026-10286-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This manuscript details a three-study development and preliminary investigation of the Suicidal Desire Variability Scale (SDVS), a self-report retrospective measure of past-week suicidal desire fluctuation. Exploratory factor analyses of the initial 17-item measure performed in 216 (Study 1) undergraduate students experiencing recent suicidal ideation (SI) and confirmatory factor analyses performed in 371 (Study 2) adults with past-week SI demonstrated a two-factor solution of nine original items representing fluctuation in SI (SDVS Dynamic) and minimal change (SDVS Static). Subscales evinced small to moderate correlations with affect and emotional lability as well as no or small relationships with SI severity and its correlates (e.g., wish to live) in Study 2. Study 3 was an ecological momentary assessment investigation of 40 undergraduate students who completed the SDVS following a 10-day ambulatory phase. Retrospective SDVS subscale scores demonstrated moderate correlations with one measure of suicidal desire dynamics assessed across the ambulatory phase.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"48 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13186210/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147982427","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nathaniel L Phillips, Colin E Vize, Katherine L Collison, Michael L Crowe, Donald R Lynam, Joshua D Miller
{"title":"UPPS-P Impulsivity, Momentary Affect, and Gambling: An Experience Sampling Method Study.","authors":"Nathaniel L Phillips, Colin E Vize, Katherine L Collison, Michael L Crowe, Donald R Lynam, Joshua D Miller","doi":"10.1007/s10862-026-10267-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-026-10267-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>Examine the relations among UPPS-P impulsigenic traits (i.e., Negative and Positive Urgency, Lack of Premeditation, Lack of Perseverance, Sensation Seeking) and momentary affect with gambling behaviors in daily life.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Ninety-nine people who regularly gamble (<i>M</i> <sub><i>age</i></sub> <i>=</i> 29.61; 69.7% male; 55.6% White) completed baseline self-report assessments of UPPS-P traits and responded to six daily prompts for seven days assessing affective states and gambling behavior. Bayesian mixed-effects models were used to estimate the additive and interactive effects of trait impulsivity and momentary affect on four gambling behaviors: (a) whether participants gambled since the previous signal, (b) time spent gambling, (c) money planned to gamble, and (d) money actually spent.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Most estimated effects did not meet the preregistered threshold for significance (99% credible intervals excluding zero). The only robust and statistically significant effect was a positive association between Lack of Premeditation and time spent gambling. Momentary affect variables showed heterogeneous associations with gambling outcomes, and zero cross-level interactions between traits, momentary affect, and gambling pathology severity were supported.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>The robust association between Lack of Premeditation and gambling duration highlights the value of modeling impulsivity as a multidimensional construct that has varying relations with different forms of gambling behaviors in daily life. Although most effects were small and uncertain, the Bayesian framework allowed us to quantify uncertainty and provide estimates that may facilitate the use of more informed prior probability distributions in future work.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"48 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13003932/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147499208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Rachel A Vaughn-Coaxum, Krithika Prakash, Claire S Tomlinson, Patrick Mair, Lan Yu, David A Kolko, Paul A Pilkonis, Oliver Lindhiem
{"title":"National Norms and Differential Item Functioning Tests of the Parent-Report MFQ for Children Ages 5-12.","authors":"Rachel A Vaughn-Coaxum, Krithika Prakash, Claire S Tomlinson, Patrick Mair, Lan Yu, David A Kolko, Paul A Pilkonis, Oliver Lindhiem","doi":"10.1007/s10862-026-10300-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-026-10300-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (MFQ) is a widely used screening tool for childhood depression, but existing cutoff scores have been derived primarily from older or clinically referred samples of youth. Less is known about score distributions and percentiles in nationally representative samples of younger children. The present study established parent-report MFQ norms and evaluated item characteristics and Differential Item Functioning (DIF) across parent race/ethnicity, and parent and child sex, in a large, population-based sample. Data were collected in February 2024 from 1,000 U.S. parents of children ages 5-12. Parents completed demographic measures and the 34-item long-form MFQ. Item response theory (IRT) analyses evaluated unidimensionality, item discrimination, and DIF across the three largest racial/ethnic groups (White, Black, Latine) and across parent and child sex. Percentile ranks and 95% confidence intervals were generated for MFQ raw total scores. Results supported unidimensionality and good model fit. All items demonstrated adequate to strong discrimination, and no items showed meaningful DIF across subgroups. Percentile norms indicated that a raw score of 15 corresponded to the 85th percentile, providing a developmentally appropriate cutoff for younger children in community samples. These findings augment the evidence base for the MFQ by providing nationally representative norms for younger children, with practical implications for clinical interpretation of total scale scores.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10862-026-10300-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"48 3","pages":"41"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13379435/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148497764","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Susan D Mayes, Mara Villalongo Andino, Richard E Mattison, Daniel A Waschbusch
{"title":"Co-occurring Symptoms of ADHD, Autism, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, and Academic Impairment in Referred and Community Children.","authors":"Susan D Mayes, Mara Villalongo Andino, Richard E Mattison, Daniel A Waschbusch","doi":"10.1007/s10862-026-10317-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-026-10317-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Our study is the first to compare in referred and population-based samples the co-occurrence of four common problems for which children are referred for psychological evaluations (ADHD, autism, oppositional defiant disorder/ODD, and academic impairment). Youth were rated by their mothers on the Pediatric Behavior Scale, assessing symptoms of ADHD, autism, ODD, and academic impairment. The 1,601 referred children (6-16 years) were diagnosed with autism and/or ADHD. The population-based samples comprised 665 children 6-12 years and 376 re-evaluated a mean of 8 years later. All children had an IQ <i>≥</i> 70. Co-occurrence of ADHD, autism, ODD, and academic impairment symptoms was high in the referred and community samples. In the referred sample, 90% had symptoms of two or more of these diagnoses. In the community samples, the risk of two or more symptom elevations was as high as the risk of having only one. Overall, most youth with autism had ADHD-Combined and ODD, most youth with ADHD-Combined had ODD, and most youth with ADHD-Combined and ADHD-Inattentive had academic impairment. Ratings of inattention were more strongly associated with academic impairment than with autism and ODD, whereas hyperactive/impulsive ratings were associated with ODD. Across samples, inattention was a significant and unique correlate of academic impairment ratings and low reading and math achievement test scores, whereas hyperactivity/impulsivity was a unique correlate of ODD. Given high co-occurrence across clinical and community contexts, evaluations should routinely assess ADHD, autism, ODD, and academic impairment together so that treatable conditions that compound each other are identified and addressed.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"48 3","pages":"59"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13570906/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148963365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Devil Is in the Tail: Manchester Short Assessment of Quality of Life (MANSA) test percentiles and normalized T-scores.","authors":"Edwin de Beurs, Bertus F Jeronimus","doi":"10.1007/s10862-025-10266-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-025-10266-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Purpose: </strong>In measurement-based care or routine outcome monitoring self-report questionnaires are used to monitor how a patient fares in therapy. Interpretation and utilization of test results are improved and communication facilitated when raw scores are converted to common metrics, such as standard scores (T-scores) and percentile rank scores. Both types of common metrics are described and reviewed and a warning is issued that percentiles may be misinterpreted at the tails of the scale.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Data from the Manchester Short Assessment (MANSA) was used to investigate various approaches to obtain T-scores. The study analyzed cross-sectional data from two normative samples: a representative sample of the Dutch general population (N = 11,789) and a clinical sample (N = 9987) of patients with substance use disorder. Linear, normalized, and IRT-based T-scores were compared.Results revealed that T-scores derived from a linear conversion were biased at the lower end of the scale. Normalizing raw test scores through either Rankit normalization or by an IRT approach yielded improved and quite similar T-scores. For all possible raw scores on the MANSA, corresponding normalized T-scores are presented, as well as Percentile Rank scores for the two reference groups. Finally, cut-off values for reliable change and clinically significant change are presented for raw scores and T-scores.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Practical guidance is offered for converting raw test scores into two common metrics: normalized T-scores and Percentile Rank scores. For T-scores, simple linear conversions yielded biased results. These findings have implications for test developers, practitioners, and researchers who want to express test results in valid and unbiased common metrics.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10862-025-10266-0.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"48 1","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12847227/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"146086199","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Using Ecological Momentary Assessment to Measure Impulsivity among Trauma-Exposed Adults.","authors":"Emily Heinlein, Cameron P Pugach, Blair E Wisco","doi":"10.1007/s10862-025-10248-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-025-10248-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Impulsivity has historically been measured with retrospective self-reports rather than ecological momentary assessment (EMA). This paper assesses momentary engagement in risky behavior and whether it is driven by momentary negative affect/situations and positive affect/situations, reflecting the negative and positive urgency facets of impulsivity. The present study used EMA to analyze whether momentary negative and positive feelings and situations were associated with engagement in risky behavior. This study also investigates whether PTSD diagnostic status moderated these associations. The sample included 80 trauma-exposed community members (39 with PTSD, 41 without PTSD) who completed up to 17 surveys per day for three days (total number of completed surveys = 2,158). This analysis produced more evidence for negative urgency than positive urgency, with negative affect and situations both significantly predicting risky behavior at the within-subjects level. Negative urgency was either not moderated by PTSD or possibly tempered by PTSD. This study offers a novel approach for measuring momentary urgency within trauma-exposed samples using EMA. Although this secondary analysis was limited, it provides promising new avenues for research.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"47 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC13340568/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148404154","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paulo A Graziano, Melissa Hernandez, Anthony Steven Dick
{"title":"Emotion and Executive Dysfunction in Young Children with Disruptive Behavior Disorders: The Role of Cardiac Autonomic Balance.","authors":"Paulo A Graziano, Melissa Hernandez, Anthony Steven Dick","doi":"10.1007/s10862-025-10212-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-025-10212-0","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Objective: </strong>There is support for altered parasympathetic (PNS) and sympathetic (SNS) functioning among children with disruptive behavior disorders (DBD) which may underlie impairments in both emotion regulation (ER) and executive functioning (EF). This study examined the extent to which cardiac autonomic balance (CAB), a composite index that integrates the relative influences of the PNS and SNS on the heart, differentiates young typically developing (TD) children and those with a DBD.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>Participants included 245 young children (72% boys, <i>M</i> <sub>age</sub> = 5.44 years; 82% Latinx; 50% TD). Indexes of PNS (i.e., respiratory sinus arrhythmia [RSA]) and sympathetic (i.e., pre-ejection period [PEP]) reactivity were collected during a baseline task along with six other lab tasks measuring ER and EF. CAB was computed using the following formula: <math><mtext>CAB</mtext> <mspace></mspace> <mo>=</mo> <mspace></mspace> <mtext>RSAz</mtext> <mspace></mspace> <mo>-</mo> <mo>(</mo> <mo>-</mo> <mtext>PEPz</mtext> <mo>)</mo></math> with higher positive scores reflective of greater reliance on PNS input.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>No difference in resting/baseline CAB was found among the groups. On the other hand, children with DBDs had <i>lower</i> and <i>negative</i> CAB <i>reactivity</i> scores across 4 out of the 6 tasks relative to the TD group which had positive CAB reactivity scores (Cohen's <i>d</i> range = -0.27 to -0.38).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Children with DBDs' negative CAB values indicate a physiological profile of greater SNS reactivity while children in the TD group's positive CAB values indicate a physiological profile of greater PNS reactivity. A lower and negative CAB reactivity profile may be a physiological indicator that contributes to underlying impairments in both EF and ER among children with DBD.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.8,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12419502/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145040434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael J Kofler, Elia F Soto, Mark D Rapport, Samuel Whitehead
{"title":"Ecological Validity of Clinic-Based Actigraphy for Assessing Hyperactivity in Clinically Evaluated Children with and without ADHD.","authors":"Michael J Kofler, Elia F Soto, Mark D Rapport, Samuel Whitehead","doi":"10.1007/s10862-025-10218-8","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-025-10218-8","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Though often conflated with face validity, ecological validity refers to the degree that a test or measure predicts real-world behavior/functioning. The current study leveraged two independent samples to provide a critical evaluation of the extent to which clinic-based actigraphy demonstrates ecological validity evidence relative to parent- and teacher-reported hyperactivity ratings. Further, across both samples we evaluated the extent to which the ecological validity evidence for these mechanical measures of hyperactivity varies as a function of the task children are completing while their movement is assessed objectively (low vs. high cognitive demands). Across two independent samples comprising clinically-evaluated children with and without ADHD (<i>Ns</i>=88, 184; <i>M</i> <sub><i>ages</i></sub> =9.2, 10.4; 6%, 33% girls; 68%, 70% White Non-Hispanic), latent path models indicated that clinic-based actigraphy during visuospatial working memory testing (high cognitive demands) demonstrated significant associations with both parent- and teacher-rated hyperactivity that were indistinguishable (<i>p</i>>.05) from parent and teacher ratings's associations with each other in both sample 1 (<i>r</i>=.57) and sample 2 (<i>r</i>=.35; all <i>p</i><.001). Actigraphy during baseline (low cognitive demand) conditions also uniquely predicted hyperactivity at home and school in both samples (all <i>p</i><.001), albeit with a less consistent yet robust pattern relative to parent/teacher associations. In both samples, actigraphy showed strong test-retest reliability over 2-4 weeks across clinic-based tasks with high cognitive demands (<i>r</i>=.61-.93) and high concurrent validity across tasks with high vs. low cognitive demands (<i>r</i>=.35-.61; all <i>p</i><.007). This pattern supports the ecological validity of clinic-based actigraphy during working memory testing, which predicts real-world behavior at home and school just as well as parent perceptions of hyperactivity at home predict teacher perceptions of hyperactivity at school (and vice versa).</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"47 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12380012/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144958515","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kelsey N Serier, Rachel L Zelkowitz, Emma K Knutson, Dawne Vogt, Brian N Smith, Karen S Mitchell
{"title":"Investigating the Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance of the Forms of Self-Criticizing/Attacking and Self-Reassuring Scale in Veteran Men and Women.","authors":"Kelsey N Serier, Rachel L Zelkowitz, Emma K Knutson, Dawne Vogt, Brian N Smith, Karen S Mitchell","doi":"10.1007/s10862-025-10192-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-025-10192-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Self-criticism, or negative self-evaluation characterized by often unrealistic personal standards and a harsh self-view, is a relevant transdiagnostic construct for mental health. Yet, the psychometric properties of scales assessing self-criticism have not been examined in military veterans, a population with a high burden of psychiatric symptoms. The present study tested the factor structure of the full and short-form versions of the Forms of Self-Criticizing/Attacking & Self-Reassuring Scale (FSCRS and FSCRS-SF), a measure of self-criticism, in a sample of 1,161 United States veterans who completed this and other measures as part of a larger study. Measurement invariance across men and women and associations with mental health symptoms, disordered eating, substance abuse, and self-directed violence were also examined. We found adequate support for two- and three-factor models and improved model fit with correlated residuals. Given theoretical and model fit considerations, measurement invariance was tested with the three-factor model. Both the FSCRS and FSCRS-SF were invariant across men and women. Women scored higher than men on the Hated Self (HS) and Inadequate Self (IS) subscales. HS and IS subscales scores were positively correlated with mental health constructs, whereas Reassured Self (RS) subscale scores were negatively correlated with these constructs. Overall, both the FSCRS and FSCRS-SF, when a briefer scale is preferred, appear appropriate for use in veterans. There are important gender differences in self-criticism that warrant further investigation; however, scores on this measure can be meaningfully compared across men and women. Validation of the FSCRS in veterans may encourage additional research on self-criticism in this population.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"47 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12383283/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144958541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ethan M Weires, Leiana de la Paz, Brendan M Whitney, Molly A Nikolas
{"title":"Emotion Dysregulation in College Students: Contributions of Maladaptive Personality Traits and Momentary Affect.","authors":"Ethan M Weires, Leiana de la Paz, Brendan M Whitney, Molly A Nikolas","doi":"10.1007/s10862-025-10243-7","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10862-025-10243-7","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Emotion regulation involves behavioral modulation of emotional expression across contexts and is highly relevant to the experience of psychopathology. Maladaptive personality traits may be particularly relevant individual differences for understanding problems with emotion regulation, or dysregulation. Similarly, momentary variability in negative affect, which can be captured with greater precision via ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods, may also be relevant for mapping how individual differences influence emotion dysregulation in real time. The present study investigated how emotion dysregulation is affected by maladaptive personality and negative affect among college students. Data were collected between September 2019 and September 2021, as part of a larger study on emotional functioning and social media use. Of the full baseline sample (<i>N</i> = 406), 154 students (<i>M</i> <sub>age</sub>=18.7, 72.7% female, 80.5% White) completed 28 EMA surveys over seven days. Path analysis revealed that all maladaptive personality traits, except antagonism, uniquely predicted multiple dimensions of dysregulation, with negative affectivity observed as the strongest trait predictor. Multilevel models demonstrated that both increased between- and within-person variability in negative affect were associated with increased overall levels of momentary dysregulation. Further, increased fluctuations in negative affect were associated with greater fluctuations in momentary dysregulation. These associations were significantly moderated by higher mean-levels of negative affect but not by any of the maladaptive traits. This study's findings highlight notable differences in state and trait level predictors of dysregulation and contribute to the understanding of how such antecedents could be used in the development of real-time interventions.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10862-025-10243-7.</p>","PeriodicalId":16910,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment","volume":"47 3","pages":"65"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12322088/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144794789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}