Year: 2019
Type: dissertation
Abstract: In this review, our aim was to study the relationship between emotion regulation and PTSD. For this, the scientific literature was analyzed from the Scopus, PubMed and Web of Science databases. Broadly speaking, a total of 100 related studies were obtained, however, after an exhaustive selective process, 35 studies remained. After the review, a large number of studies were obtained confirming the close relationship between the difficulties of emotional regulation and the severity of PTSD symptoms, which is more complex than it appeared. At the same time, it was seen how emotional regulation mediates the relationship between PTSD and problems such as risky sexual behavior, alcohol consumption, trauma-cocaine association, eating disorders, depressive symptoms and problems of social adjustment after trauma. Also the relationship with alexithymia, negative affect, positive affect, more cognitive aspects (such as metacognition or the own perception of emotional intelligence), the type of trauma, dissociative symptoms and traumatic history. The influence of emotional regulation on the symptoms of PTSD is evidenced even by alterations in certain psychophysiological parameters. Another remarkable result of this review was the relationship between emotion regulation and the most severe form of PTSD, that is complex PTSD. In some way, this review is validating the importance of the difficulties of emotional regulation in PTSD and with it, the need to include sections to work these difficulties in treatment programs and even their prevention in the school setting.
Authors: Salvi Bidart, María Teresa
Language: English
Subfield: Clinical Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3163346536