Emotion regulation difficulties as a mediator to explore how emotion regulation strategies influence psychological adaptation: An example of substance abuser treatment center inmates

• Main Authors: Yi Chen, 陳宜
• Other Authors: Bi-Ling Shieh
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/93042563822475180901

碩士 === 高雄醫學大學 === 心理學系碩士班 === 105 === The ability to regulate emotion of substance abusers is worse. Individuals regulating their emotion by substance use are less likely to resort to other forms of emotion regulation strategies and have worse psychological adaptation. Also, the use of emotion regulation strategies may influence the degree of emotion regulation difficulties. However, in the past, the relationship among emotion regulation strategies, emotion regulation difficulties and psychological adaptation was few analyzed. Besides, there is few research of the Applicability on substance abusers in the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Therefore, there are two parts in this study. First, we exam the reliability and validity of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale after translation. Second, we explore the relationship among emotion regulation strategies, emotion regulation difficulties and psychological adaptation. There are 204 subjects who are male inmates in the Substance Abuser Treatment Center. After Informed consent and description of the study and evaluation methods, subjects completed the self-report inventories. The results indicate that the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale has good internal consistency, good criterion-related validity, and adequate construct validity. The construction in this study is different with the construction in the original theory. The construct of the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale in this study contains 4 factors: nonacceptance of emotional responses, difficulties engaging in goal directed behaviors, impulse control difficulties and limited access to emotion regulation strategies. Besides, the results suggeste that emotion regulation difficulties plays the mediation role between the specific emotion regulation strategies (”develop new opinion”, ” dysfunctional regulation”) and negative psychological adaptation. That is, the specific emotion regulation strategies could reduce / increase emotion regulation difficulties, thereby reduce / increase negative psychological adaptation. The results of this study provide the evidence for future researches and measurement tool, as well as the use of clinical intervention in substance abusers.