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Psychological Health and Emotion Regulation

A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Nursing".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (29 February 2024) | Viewed by 2755

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Maayan Nagar

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Department of Criminology, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel
Interests: mental health; addictions; substance use; marginalization; emotion
Dr. Michal Cohen

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School of Psychology, Reichman University, Hertzliya 4610101, Israel
Interests: clinical psychology; mental health; adolescents; psychotherapy

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Most psychiatric disorders involve problematic patterns of emotional reactivity and regulation of emotions. Emotions such as fear, anger, sadness, and even happiness arise immediately as an individual attends to a specific situation. As emotions arise, they involve cognitive, behavioral, and physiological responses. Emotion regulation refers to one's ability to implicitly or explicitly influence the emotion generation process. Individuals with psychopathology often experience difficulties with emotional intensity, duration, frequency, or type. An important cause of such problematic patterns of emotions is emotion dysregulation. Thus it is not surprising that adaptive emotion regulation has been linked with positive mental health, while maladaptive emotion regulation has been associated with increased psychopathology (i.e., depression, anxiety, substance use disorders). The purpose of this Special Issue is to present the diversity and gaps in knowledge regarding research on emotion regulation and mental health among different groups in society.

In this Special Issue, we encourage empirical work (experimental and correlational) that explores the different antecedents and consequences of emotion regulation in relation to mental health. We are open to well-developed theoretical papers that have a significant contribution, as well as to systematic reviews and meta-analyses. Interested authors unsure about the suitability of their topic can contact the editors prior to submitting. 

Dr. Maayan Nagar
Dr. Michal Cohen
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Healthcare is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

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Keywords

  • mental health
  • psychopathology
  • emotion regulation
  • affect regulation
  • clinical psychology

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Can I Leave the Past Behind? Associations between Childhood Abuse and Adult Psychopathology
by Maayan Nagar and Ora Nakash
Healthcare 2024, 12(3), 412; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare12030412 - 5 Feb 2024
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Background: Research consistently shows that abuse during childhood is related to adult psychopathology. Information regarding childhood abuse is frequently collected from either previous documentation or from participants’ self-reports. Objective: In the current study, we combined information on reports of childhood abuse from several [...] Read more.
Background: Research consistently shows that abuse during childhood is related to adult psychopathology. Information regarding childhood abuse is frequently collected from either previous documentation or from participants’ self-reports. Objective: In the current study, we combined information on reports of childhood abuse from several informants (patients, treating clinicians, and independent interviewer), as well as diagnostic assessments of adult patients based on independent interviewer assessments based on structured diagnostic interviews (SCID) and clinician judgments, to better examine the association between exposure to abuse during childhood and adult psychopathology. Participants and Setting: A convenience sample of patients in community mental health and hospital-based clinics (N = 170) and their clinicians (N = 80) participated in the study. Methods: Patients and clinicians completed the Clinical Data Form. Patients also completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire. Independent interviewer-assessed patients and completed the Familial Experiences Interview. Clinicians completed a diagnostic assessment of their patients based on clinical judgment. Independent interviewers completed the Structured Clinical Interview (SCID). Results: Reports of exposure to physical, emotional, and sexual abuse during childhood from all informants correlated with the treating clinician’s diagnosis of borderline personality disorder (BPD; r range 0.23–0.37, p < 0.05), but not with SCID diagnosis of BPD. Clinician and SCID diagnosis of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) correlated with patient and interviewer reports of childhood sexual abuse (r range 0.23–0.30, p < 0.05), but there were no correlations with treating clinician’s reports of sexual abuse. Conclusions: The association between BPD and childhood abuse is consistent across different ratings and measurements. The study raises questions of the ability of a structured interview to accurately capture BPD and highlights the connection between sexual abuse and PTSD, and the importance of treating clinicians’ examination of childhood sexual abuse among their patients. Full article
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Assisted Reproductive Treatments, Quality of Life, and Alexithymia in Couples
by Alessia Renzi, Fabiola Fedele and Michela Di Trani
Healthcare 2023, 11(7), 1026; https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11071026 - 4 Apr 2023
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Infertility and related treatments can negatively affect a couple’s wellbeing. The aim of this study was to evaluate couples starting assisted reproductive treatment, differences in alexithymia and quality of life levels between partners, and the association of these psychological dimensions within the couple’s [...] Read more.
Infertility and related treatments can negatively affect a couple’s wellbeing. The aim of this study was to evaluate couples starting assisted reproductive treatment, differences in alexithymia and quality of life levels between partners, and the association of these psychological dimensions within the couple’s members. Data was collected in two fertility centres in Rome; 47 couples completed the Fertility Quality of Life (FertiQoL), the 20-item Toronto Alexithymia Scale (TAS-20), and a socio-demographic questionnaire. Data analysis showed a worsened quality of life in women compared with their partners, as well as higher externally oriented thinking in men compared with their spouses. Associations between alexithymia and quality of life levels between women and men emerged. According to the regression analysis, a better quality of life in women was predicted by a greater partner’s capabilities in identifying and describing emotion as well as by a better partner’s quality of life, whereas for men, a better quality of life was predicted by their spouse’s higher levels of quality of life. This study highlights the protective role that couples can play in the perception of the negative impact that infertility can have on their partner’s quality of life. Further investigations are needed for the development of specific therapeutic interventions for the promotion of the couples’ wellbeing. Full article
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