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KMID : 0981220210210020337
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Congnitive Behavior Therapy in Korea
2021 Volume.21 No. 2 p.337 ~ p.360
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The Mediating Role of Emotion Dysregulation in the Effects of a Brief Unified, Transdiagnostic Intervention for Undergraduate Students with Emotional Disorder Symptoms
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Nam Sue-A
Cha Su-Min
Cho Yong-Rae
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Abstract
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This study was conducted to shed light on the mechanism of action of a brief unified transdiagnostic intervention for undergraduate students with various emotional disorder symptoms. We proposed emotion dysregulation as a potential mediator of the effects of the brief transdiagnostic intervention for social anxiety, generalized anxiety, depression symptoms, and negative emotions, based on previous findings and literature review, and then examined its mediating effects. Participants were sixty-eight undergraduate students who met the criteria for at least mild level of relevant symptoms on one or more of the two depression scales and three anxiety scales. The number of participants who completed the brief unified, transdiagnostic intervention and the psychoeducational intervention, respectively, was 31 and each intervention consisted of five semiweekly 90- or 120-minute-long sessions. Compared to the participants in psycho-education condition, those in the brief unified, transdiagnostic intervention condition demonstrated significant improvements in social anxiety, generalized anxiety, depression symptoms, negative emotion, and emotion dysregulation. Moreover, change in emotion dysregulation fully mediated its efficacy on all of the outcome measures. These results provide the evidence that the brief unified, transdiagnostic intervention is efficacious in alleviating several emotional disorder symptoms among subclinical undergraduate students, and that its effects are mediated through a decrease in emotion dysregulation. Finally, theoretical and practical implications, as well as limitations of this study are discussed.
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KEYWORD
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brief unified transdiagnostic intervention, emotional disorder symptoms, emotion dysregulation, mediating role
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