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Sleep disturbance and emotion dysregulation as transdiagnostic processes in a comorbid sample
Sleep disturbance and emotion dysregulation have been identified as etiologic and maintaining factors for a range of psychopathology and separate literatures support their relationships to anxiety, depression, PTSD, and alcohol dependence (AD) symptom severity. Previous studies have examined these r...
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Published in: | Behaviour research and therapy 2013-09, Vol.51 (9), p.540-546 |
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Main Authors: | , , , , , |
Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Summary: | Sleep disturbance and emotion dysregulation have been identified as etiologic and maintaining factors for a range of psychopathology and separate literatures support their relationships to anxiety, depression, PTSD, and alcohol dependence (AD) symptom severity. Previous studies have examined these relationships in isolation, failing to account for the high rates of comorbidity among disorders. It is not yet known whether these processes uniquely predict symptom severity in each of these domains. Participants were 220 patients in residential substance abuse treatment, who had experienced a potentially traumatic event and exceeded screening cutoffs for probable PTSD and problematic alcohol use. Controlling for emotion dysregulation and the interrelationships among the outcome variables, insomnia was uniquely associated with anxiety (B = .27, p |
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ISSN: | 0005-7967 1873-622X |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.brat.2013.05.014 |