The role of specific emotion dysregulation facets in the association between child violence exposure and psychopathology.
Dominique L La BarrieMiriam ZegaracYara MekawiEva KuzykAnais F StensonTanja JovanovicBekh BradleyAbigail D PowersPublished in: Psychological trauma : theory, research, practice and policy (2022)
These findings suggest that certain components of emotion dysregulation serve as an indirect pathway of influence for community violence exposure on child behavior, and the pathways differ between externalizing and internalizing behavior outcomes. Emotion dysregulation may serve as an important potential treatment target in reducing long-term risks associated with violence exposure in urban communities of color. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).