Study participants were 210 women victims of intimate partner violence (IPV) involved in the criminal justice system because of their partners' arrest (M age 36.14, 48.6 percent African American). The participants completed empirically supported self-report measures that assessed difficulties in regulating positive and negative emotions in relation to PTSD symptom severity. The study found that difficulties in regulating positive and negative emotions (overall and across each of the specific dimensions) were significantly positively associated with PTSD symptom severity; moreover, difficulties in regulating positive emotions had an incremental relation to PTSD symptom severity beyond the variance accounted for by difficulties in regulating negative emotions.These findings suggest the benefit of targeting difficulties in regulating positive emotions in interventions for PTSD among women victims of IPV. (publisher abstract modified)
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