ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Dysregulated in Prison: Purpose, Trauma, and Impulsivity Contribute to Emotion Dysregulation in an Incarcerated Sample

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Other

  • Tyree Dingle
    Pacific University, SGP
  • Jenna Flowers
    Pacific University
  • Claudia Jacova
    Pacific University School of Graduate Psychology

Abstract

The current study examined predictors of emotion dysregulation among men and women incarcerated in the Pacific Northwest. Purpose in life, trauma symptoms, and negative urgency, but not psychological inflexibility, were found to be predict emotion dysregulation explaining 52% of the variance in the current sample.

Criminal Justice