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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
Childhood maltreatment influences suicidal behavior: Rumination mediates and regulatory emotional self-efficacy
Cai-Zhi Wu1, Zhi-Ying Zong1, Ting-Ting Huang1
1Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyber Psychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, China.
Abstract:
To investigate the mediating role of rumination in the association between childhood maltreatment and suicidal behavior, and the moderating role of regulatory emotional self-efficacy, university students (N = 1,458) from 5 universities in China completed questionnaires in classrooms. Path analyses showed emotional maltreatment had the greatest positive association with suicidal behavior and rumination compared with other types of childhood maltreatment. Rumination partly mediated the relationship between childhood maltreatment and suicidal behavior. High regulatory emotional self-efficacy moderated the relation between ruminating childhood maltreatment and suicidal behavior.
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