Department of Psychology, Lafayette College.
Department of Psychology, Northern Illinois University.
Psychol Trauma. 2020 Sep;12(6):643-650. doi: 10.1037/tra0000577. Epub 2020 Apr 6.
Existing literature suggests strong positive associations between posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms and emotion regulation difficulties; however, many of these findings are the result of monomethodological approaches (e.g., self-report questionnaires) versus multimethodological approaches. The current study utilized both self-report questionnaires and an emotion regulation choice paradigm (see Sheppes, Scheibe, Suri, & Gross, 2011) to assess various facets of emotion dysregulation in a sample of trauma-exposed undergraduate students with varying levels of self-reported PTSD symptoms (measured by the PTSD Checklist, fifth edition). Data were collected from 83 students who underwent a laboratory paradigm, followed by completion of numerous self-report measures of emotion regulation (e.g., the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale, the Acceptance and Action Questionnaire-II, and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire). Students with probable PTSD ( = 25) exhibited greater emotion dysregulation on self-report measures compared with students with nonprobable PTSD ( = 58; ² ranged from .06 to .42). Additionally, results from the emotion regulation choice paradigm suggested that students with probable PTSD were more likely to exhibit regulatory inflexibility compared with students with nonprobable PTSD (² = .05). In other words, students with probable PTSD were less likely to use reappraisal (vs. distraction) to help regulate their emotions in response to low-intensity negative stimuli compared with students with nonprobable PTSD. Students with probable PTSD report greater perceived emotion regulation difficulties on self-report questionnaires as well as greater behavioral regulatory inflexibility during a laboratory paradigm. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
现有文献表明，创伤后应激障碍（PTSD）症状与情绪调节困难之间存在强烈的正相关关系；然而，这些发现中的许多都是单方法学方法（例如，自我报告问卷）而不是多方法学方法的结果。本研究采用自我报告问卷和情绪调节选择范式（参见 Sheppes、Scheibe、Suri 和 Gross，2011），在具有不同程度自我报告 PTSD 症状（通过 PTSD 检查表，第五版测量）的创伤暴露大学生样本中评估情绪失调的各个方面。从 83 名学生中收集数据，这些学生经历了实验室范式，然后完成了许多情绪调节自我报告测量（例如，情绪调节困难量表、接受与行动问卷-II 和情绪调节问卷）。患有可能 PTSD 的学生（n=25）在自我报告测量上表现出更大的情绪失调，而非可能 PTSD 的学生（n=58；²从 0.06 到 0.42 不等）。此外，情绪调节选择范式的结果表明，与非可能 PTSD 的学生相比，可能 PTSD 的学生更有可能表现出调节灵活性不足（²=0.05）。换句话说，与非可能 PTSD 的学生相比，可能 PTSD 的学生在面对低强度负性刺激时不太可能使用重新评估（与分心相比）来帮助调节情绪。患有可能 PTSD 的学生在自我报告问卷上报告了更大的感知情绪调节困难，以及在实验室范式中表现出更大的行为调节灵活性。（PsycInfo 数据库记录（c）2020 APA，保留所有权利）。
