Frieh, Amélie (2025) The Role of Emotion Regulation as a Mediator between Childhood Emotional Abuse and Neglect and State Dissociation Severity. Master thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
This study examined whether emotion regulation difficulties mediate the relationship between childhood emotional abuse and neglect and state dissociation severity elicited by interpersonal eye gazing, in a non-clinical sample. Participants completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-28), Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and Response to Script-Driven Imagery (RSDI) before and after an interpersonal eye gazing task designed to induce state dissociation in participants. Results showed that emotional abuse, but not neglect, significantly predicted greater emotion regulation difficulties. In turn, emotion dysregulation predicted increased state dissociation severity, supporting an indirect pathway. However, no direct relationship was found between CTQ scores and RSDI change scores. Although the average increase in dissociation was modest (M = 9.22), the range (-6 to 22) indicated substantial individual variability. Findings highlight the role of emotion regulation in dissociative reactivity in that emotion regulation may be a key mechanism linking early emotional abuse to acute dissociative experiences. They also suggest that state dissociation is influenced by both trauma history and individual situational sensitivity.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Supervisor name: | Daniels, J.K. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | Clinical Forensic Psychology and Victimology (FP) [Master Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 10 Jul 2025 07:26 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Jul 2025 07:26 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/5421 |
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