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Citation |
Buckholdt KE, Weiss NH, Young J, Gratz KL. Child Psychiatry Hum. Dev. 2014; 46(6): 884-892. |
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Affiliation |
Department of Psychiatry, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA, kbckhldt@memphis.edu. |
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Copyright |
(Copyright © 2014, Holtzbrinck Springer Nature Publishing Group) |
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25500759 |
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Abstract |
Exposure to violence during adolescence is a highly prevalent phenomenon associated with a range of deleterious outcomes. Theoretical literature suggests that emotion dysregulation is one consequence of exposure to violence associated with the manifestation of posttraumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) and borderline personality (BP) pathology. Thus, the goal of the present study was to examine the mediating role of emotion dysregulation in the relation between exposure to violence and both PTSS and BP pathology in a sample of 144 adolescents (age 10- to 17-years; 51 % male; 55 % African American) admitted to a psychiatric residential treatment center. Exposure to violence was associated with greater emotion dysregulation, which, in turn, was associated with greater PTSS and BP pathology. Furthermore, emotion dysregulation mediated the associations between exposure to violence and both PTSS and BP pathology. Language: en |