Dimensions of Childhood Adversity and Adolescent Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: The Roles of Emotion Regulation and Identity Problems

We explored whether difficulties in emotion regulation and identity problems explain the link between childhood experiences of threat and deprivation and adolescent internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Unique mechanisms linking experiences of threat and deprivation to internalizing and externalizing pathology were found in 125 adolescents (M_age=15.33, 77.6% female).