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Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review
Aldao, A., Nolen-Hoeksema, S., & Schweizer, S. (2010). Emotion-regulation strategies across psychopathology: A meta-analytic review.
Level D Meta-analysis doi:10.1016/j.cpr.2009.11.004
What this study supports
Supports the claim that rumination shows the largest association with symptoms, with avoidance and suppression also associated. It pools correlational studies, so it is graded D and cannot establish causation.
- Who was studied
- 241 effect sizes from 114 studies of dispositional emotion regulation and symptoms of anxiety, depression, eating and substance-related disorders.
- Design
- Meta-analysis
- Level of evidence
- Cross-sectional, observational, qualitative work and narrative reviews.
Claims that rest on it
Each claim states what the site asserts, at what strength, and with what caveat.
EmpiricalLevel DConfidence HIGH
Rumination shows the largest association with symptoms of anxiety, depression, eating and substance-related disorders among the regulation strategies studied, and it predicts the onset of depression.
- Scope
- Dispositional regulation in clinical and non-clinical samples.
- Caveat
- The pooled data are largely correlational and cannot show that rumination causes symptoms.
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