Clin Psychol Rev March 2010 PMID 20015584

Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review.

Amelia Aldao, Susan Nolen-Hoeksema, Susanne Schweizer

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Participants appreciate the detailed analysis of emotion regulation strategies, highlighting how rumination is strongly linked to mental health issues, and discuss implications for clinical practice, with words like 'surprising,' 'significant,' and 'essential' emphasizing the perceived importance and interest in the study’s findings.

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The meta-analysis explored how six emotion regulation strategies (acceptance, avoidance, problem solving, reappraisal, rumination, and suppression) relate to symptoms of various mental health issues such as anxiety, depression, eating disorders, and substance-related disorders, using data from 114 studies with 241 effect sizes.
Results showed that rumination had a large association with psychopathology, while avoidance, problem solving, and suppression had medium to large effects; reappraisal and acceptance showed smaller effects, which was surprising given their emphasis in therapy.
The study found that internalizing disorders (like anxiety and depression) are more strongly linked to emotion regulation strategies than externalizing disorders, and that whether samples were clinical or general significantly influenced these relationships.]

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