Department of Psychological Sciences, Western Kentucky University, 1906 College Heights Blvd., 42101, Bowling Green, KY, USA.
Child Psychiatry Hum Dev. 2024 Apr;55(2):467-478. doi: 10.1007/s10578-022-01413-9. Epub 2022 Sep 6.
The relationship between emotion dysregulation and suicide ideation may depend on the level of internalizing and externalizing symptoms. It was expected that both internalizing and externalizing symptoms would moderate the relationship between emotion dysregulation and suicide ideation, such that greater symptoms would strengthen the relationship between emotion dysregulation and suicide ideation. Adolescent participants (n = 559, Mage = 15.40, 85.0% white, 57.2% female) completed self-report measures that assessed emotion dysregulation, internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and recent suicide ideation. Both internalizing and externalizing symptoms moderated the relationship between emotion dysregulation and suicide ideation; this relationship strengthened as internalizing and externalizing symptoms increased. The results of this study indicate that internalizing and externalizing symptoms may both affect the connection between emotion dysregulation and suicide ideation. Future research should focus on targeting both internalizing and externalizing symptoms in treatment to help reduce emotion dysregulation and suicide ideation in adolescents.
情绪调节障碍与自杀意念之间的关系可能取决于内化和外化症状的程度。预计内化和外化症状都会调节情绪调节障碍与自杀意念之间的关系,即症状越严重,情绪调节障碍与自杀意念之间的关系就越强。青少年参与者(n=559,Mage=15.40,85.0%为白人,57.2%为女性)完成了自我报告的评估,包括情绪调节障碍、内化和外化症状以及最近的自杀意念。内化和外化症状都调节了情绪调节障碍与自杀意念之间的关系;随着内化和外化症状的增加,这种关系也随之增强。这项研究的结果表明,内化和外化症状可能都会影响情绪调节障碍与自杀意念之间的联系。未来的研究应该集中在治疗中针对内化和外化症状,以帮助减少青少年的情绪调节障碍和自杀意念。