Article
The Emotion Dysregulation Model of Anxiety: A Preliminary Path Analytic Examination
Journal of Anxiety Disorders
(2010)
Abstract
Both temperamental (e.g., behavioral inhibition) and environmental (e.g., family emotional environment) factors are associated with etiology and maintenance of anxiety; however, few studies have explored mechanisms through which these risk factors operate. The present study investigation of a developmental model of anxiety (i.e., the Emotion Dysregulation Model of Anxiety; EDMA) that hypothesizes that emotion dysregulation is the mechanism through which temperamental and emotion parenting variables relate to anxiety. Emerging adults (N = 676, M age = 19.5) retrospectively reported on behavioral inhibition and emotion parenting factors in childhood, and current emotion regulation skills and symptoms of anxiety. Results of path analyses provide initial support for the EDMA. Emotion dysregulation fully mediated the relationship between behavioral inhibition and anxiety and partially mediated the relationship between family emotional environment and anxiety.
Keywords
- anxiety,
- emotion dysregulation,
- family,
- temperament
Disciplines
Publication Date
December, 2010
DOI
10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.06.018
Citation Information
Cynthia Suveg, Diana Morelen, Gene A. Brewer and Kristel Thomassin. "The Emotion Dysregulation Model of Anxiety: A Preliminary Path Analytic Examination" Journal of Anxiety Disorders Vol. 24 Iss. 8 (2010) p. 924 - 930 ISSN: 0887-6185 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/diana-morelen/48/