APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Emotion Regulation Deficits Are Transdiagnostic: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis across Psychiatric Disorders

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Personality/Emotion

  • Alisa Germeyer
    Rocky Vista University
  • Matthew Sloan
    University of Toronto
  • Joshua Gowin
    University of Colorado
  • Benoit Mulsant
    University of Toronto
  • Marcos Sanches
    University of Toronto
  • Jordan Stellern
    University of Colorado
  • Ke Bin Xiao
    University of Toronto
  • Viyaleta Laputsina
    Rocky Vista University
  • Kevin Gill
    University of Southern California

Abstract

We conducted a meta-analysis of 188 studies (11,201 cases, 9,609 controls) on emotion regulation in psychiatric disorders. Significant impairments were found, with the largest effect size in borderline personality disorder (SMD = 2.55) and the smallest in bipolar disorder (SMD = 0.94). Emotion regulation deficits are transdiagnostic across conditions.

Psychopathology

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