APS
2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025
Intra-Individual Variability in Caregiver Invalidation As a Determinant of Emotion Regulation Following Child Maltreatment
- Anneke Olson
MUSC - Sy-Miin Chow
Pennsylvania State University - Jennie Noll
Department of Psychology and Mount Hope Family Center, University of Rochester - Chad Shenk
University of Rochester
Abstract
Children with confirmed child maltreatment (CM) histories demonstrate: 1) greater intra-individual variability in negative affect, and 2) more unpredictability in receipt of caregiver invalidation in response to vulnerable disclosures during real-time, dyadic interactions. In turn, greater intra-individual variability in caregiver invalidation significantly predicts more emotion dysregulation two years following CM.
