Vincenzo Oliva, Michele De Prisco, Giovanna Fico, Chiara Possidente, Lydia Fortea, Laura Montejo, Gerard Anmella, Diego Hidalgo-Mazzei, Iria Grande, Andrea Murru, Michele Fornaro, Andrea de Bartolomeis, Alyson Dodd, Giuseppe Fanelli, Chiara Fabbri, Alessandro Serretti, Eduard Vieta, Joaquim Radua
BACKGROUND: Emotion dysregulation (ED) is a transdiagnostic construct characterized by difficulties regulating intense emotions. People with bipolar disorder (BD) are more likely to show ED and use maladaptive emotion regulation strategies than adaptive ones. However, little is known about whether ED in BD is a trait or it is rather an epiphenomenon of mood symptoms. METHODS: We conducted a systematic review and meta-analysis of the evidence across major literature databases reporting correlations between measures of emotion regulation (overall ED and different emotion regulation strategies) and measures of depressive and (hypo)manic symptoms in BD from inception until April 12th, 2022...
September 22, 2023: Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica