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Emotion regulation in adolescents: Influences of internal representations of relationships – An ERP study

Desiatnikov, A; Bel-Bahar, T; Taylor, L; Nolte, T; Crowley, MJ; Fonagy, P; Fearon, R; (2021) Emotion regulation in adolescents: Influences of internal representations of relationships – An ERP study. International Journal of Psychophysiology , 160 pp. 1-9. 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.11.010. Green open access

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Abstract

Emotion regulation (ER) strategies can decrease the intensity or modify the experience of emotions. Deficits in emotion regulation are implicated in a wide range of psychopathologies. It is argued that interpersonal, socio-cognitive, and developmental variables play an important role in ER. This is the first study to explore the contribution of individual differences in internal representations of relationships (IRR) to neural correlates of ER in a sample of adolescents. Event related potentials of 53 adolescents (12 to 17 years old) were collected while performing an ER task. IRR was assessed with the social cognition and object relations scale (SCORS-G; Westen, 1995) coding of narratives from interviews. Results show that individual differences in IRR significantly predicted the modulation of emotional responses by expressive suppression in adolescents, accounting for 48% of the variance of changes in occipital late positive potentials (LPP). Thus, it appears that IRR are implicated in an individual's ability to regulate emotions. The clinical implications of the findings are discussed.

Type: Article
Title: Emotion regulation in adolescents: Influences of internal representations of relationships – An ERP study
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.11.010
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2020.11.010
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: late positive potential, response modulation, expressive suppression, internal working model, object relations
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Clinical, Edu and Hlth Psychology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10116404
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