Data associated with "Childhood Maltreatment Impacts Emotion Regulation Difficulties, but Not Strategy Use, Throughout Adolescence and Young Adulthood"

If you would like to use the data, please contact us.Description:This study examined how childhood abuse and neglect were associated with the developmental trajectories of emotion regulation (difficulties in emotion regulation, cognitive reappraisal, and expressive suppression) from ages 14 to 20. Adolescents reported on their difficulties in emotion regulation and on their use of emotion regulation strategy (i.e., cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) at each time point. At age 18 or 19, they retrospectively reported on their experiences of childhood abuse and neglect (i.e., ages 1 to 13). Conditional growth curve models examined the effects of both abuse and neglect from ages 1 to 13 on the initial levels and growth rates of emotion regulation difficulties and strategies from ages 14 to 20. Abuse predicted developmental changes in emotion regulation difficulties, such that greater childhood abuse was associated with larger increases in emotion regulation difficulties from ages 14 to 20. Neglect predicted the initial levels of emotion regulation difficulties such that greater childhood neglect was associated with greater difficulties in emotion regulation at age 14. The findings suggest developmental consequences of childhood abuse and neglect evidenced by impaired development of emotion regulation abilities throughout adolescence and into young adulthood, whereas emotion regulation strategy is relatively unaffected by childhood abuse and neglect.