Moderating role of parental presence in the relationship between childhood adversity, emotional reactivity, rumination, and emotion dysregulation

• Main Author: Santiago, Florina P.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 2020
• Subjects: Post-traumatic stress disorder; Rumination (Psychology); Stress (Psychology); Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etdm_psych/4; https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1016&context=etdm_psych
• Institution: De La Salle University

The study aimed to examine the associations between Childhood Adversity (CA) and Emotional Reactivity (ER), Rumination (R), and Emotion Dysregulation; and to determine whether these associations would be moderated by the presence of the parental figure. It utilized a predictive cross-sectional nonexperimental quantitative research design. Using quota sampling, the respondents comprised of students in both public (n=393) and private (n=272) colleges/ universities in the province of Batangas (N=665). The self-report measures utilized are the Adverse Childhood Experience-International Questionnaire (ACE-IQ), Emotion Reactivity Scale (ERS), Ruminative Responses Scale (RRS), and Difficulties of Emotion Regulation Scale-Short Form (DERS-SF). To describe measures and demographics, means and standard deviation were used. Pearson correlation was applied to test for the relationship in the Childhood Adversity (CA) and Emotion Regulation (ER), Rumination (R), and Emotion Dysregulation (ED). Analyses of moderated effect were conducted to test whether the presence of parental figures can serve as a protective variable in the connection between Childhood Adversity (CA), Emotional Reactivity (ER), Rumination (R), and Emotional Dysregulation (ED). Findings show that the experience of childhood adversity positively predicts emotional reactivity, rumination, and emotion dysregulation. Contrary to the hypothesis, the study found that having parents does not guarantee that an individual will be protected from developing negative emotional processes after being exposed to childhood adversity.