A case-control study of emotion regulation and school refusal in children and adolescents
Hughes, Elizabeth K., Gullone, Eleonora, Dudley, Amanda and Tonge, Bruce 2010, A case-control study of emotion regulation and school refusal in children and adolescents, Journal of early adolescence, vol. 30, no. 5, pp. 691-706, doi: 10.1177/0272431609341049.
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A case-control study of emotion regulation and school refusal in children and adolescents
The current study aimed to investigate emotion regulation (ER) strategy use in a sample of 21 clinic-referred children and adolescents (10-14 years old) presenting with school refusal, all of whom were diagnosed with at least one anxiety disorder. Being the first known study to examine ER and school refusal, hypotheses were guided by previous research on anxiety. It was hypothesized that the school refusal sample would report less healthy ER strategy use compared to an age- and sex-matched nonclinical sample (n = 21). As expected, the school refusal sample reported less use of cognitive reappraisal and greater use of expressive suppression to regulate their emotions than did the nonclinical sample. Although preliminary, the findings provide important information regarding the emotional functioning of children and adolescents presenting with school refusal. Future directions for research and implications for improved prevention and intervention programs are discussed.
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