Petruzzelli Maria Giuseppina, Margari Lucia, Furente Flora, Marzulli Lucia, Piarulli Francesco Maria, Margari Anna, Ivagnes Sara, Lavorato Elisabetta, Matera Emilia
Department of Basic Medical Sciences, Neuroscience and Sensory Organs, University Hospital "A. Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70100 Bari, Italy.
Department of Biomedical Sciences and Human Oncology, University Hospital "A. Moro", Piazza Giulio Cesare 11, 70100 Bari, Italy.
J Clin Med. 2022 Jun 9;11(12):3314. doi: 10.3390/jcm11123314.
Adolescents with gender dysphoria (GD) often have internalizing symptoms, but the relationship with affective bodily investment and emotion dysregulation is actually under-investigated. The aims of this study are: (1) the comparison of Self-Administrated Psychiatric Scales for Children and Adolescents' (SAFA), Body Investment Scale's (BIS), and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale's (DERS) scores between GD adolescents ( = 30) and cisgenders ( = 30), (2) finding correlations between body investment and emotion regulation in the GD sample, (3) evaluating the link between these dimensions and internalizing symptomatology of GD adolescents. In addition to the significant impairment in emotion regulation and a negative body investment in the GD sample, Spearman's correlation analyses showed a relationship between worse body protection and impaired emotion regulation, and binary logistic regressions of these dimensions on each SAFA domain evidenced that they may have a role in the increased probability of pathological scores for depression. Our results focused on the role played by emotion regulation and emotional investment in the body in the exacerbating and maintenance of internalizing symptoms, in particular depression, and self-harming behaviors in GD adolescents.
患有性别焦虑症（GD）的青少年常常有内化症状，但与情感身体投入及情绪调节障碍之间的关系实际上研究不足。本研究的目的是：（1）比较30名患有GD的青少年与30名顺性别青少年在儿童及青少年自评精神量表（SAFA）、身体投入量表（BIS）和情绪调节困难量表（DERS）上的得分；（2）在患有GD的样本中找出身体投入与情绪调节之间的相关性；（3）评估这些维度与患有GD的青少年内化症状之间的联系。除了患有GD的样本在情绪调节方面存在显著障碍以及身体投入为负面外，斯皮尔曼相关性分析显示较差的身体保护与受损的情绪调节之间存在关联，并且这些维度在每个SAFA领域上的二元逻辑回归证明它们可能在抑郁病理得分增加的可能性中起作用。我们的研究结果聚焦于情绪调节和对身体的情感投入在患有GD的青少年内化症状（尤其是抑郁和自伤行为）的加剧及维持中所起的作用。
