O impacto das experiências emocionais positivas precoces e das competências autocompassivas na sintomatologia depressiva: O papel mediador de diferentes processos de regulação emocional

• Autores: Maria João Varela, Cláudia Ferreira
• Localización: Revista Portuguesa de Investigação Comportamental e Social: RPICS, ISSN-e 2183-4938, Vol. 5, Nº. 1 (February), 2019, págs. 25-39
• Idioma: portugués
• DOI: 10.31211/rpics.2019.5.1.101
• Títulos paralelos:
  • The impact of early emotional positive experiences and self-compassionate abilities on depressive symptomatology: The mediator role of different emotional regulation processes
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    Contexto: A literatura tem documentado que as experiências emocionais precoces e as competências autocompassivas desempenham um papel central na regulação emocional adaptativa e na saúde mental. Adicionalmente, crescente evidência suporta que diferentes processos de regulação emocional exercem um papel mediador significativo na relação entre experiências emocionais e sintomatologia depressiva.

    Métodos e Objetivo: Este estudo foi conduzido numa amostra da população geral constituída por 389 participantes, com idades entre os 18 e os 50 anos (M = 31,84; DP = 10,97). Os participantes completaram um protocolo de medidas de autorresposta que avalia memórias precoces de calor e segurança, autocompaixão, proximidade e conexão aos outros, evitamento experiencial e sintomatologia depressiva. O estudo examinou um modelo integrador no qual foi colocado como hipótese que a relação entre memórias afiliativas positivas e sintomatologia depressiva é mediada pela proximidade e conexão aos outros e o evitamento experiencial.

    Resultados: Os resultados confirmaram a adequabilidade do modelo testado, o qual explica 34% da variância da sintomatologia depressiva. Os resultados revelaram que experiências precoces de calor, afeto e segurança e as competências autocompassivas se associam a menores níveis de sintomatologia depressiva, através de níveis superiores de sentimentos de segurança e proximidade ao outro e menor adoção de estratégias de evitamento experiencial.

    Conclusões: Este estudo contribui para a clarificação do impacto das vivências emocionais precoces e das competências autocompassivas na saúde mental. Os dados sublinham a importância das competências sociais e afiliativas e de aceitação, enquanto mecanismos mediadores na explicação da saúde mental.

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    Background: The scientific literature supports that early emotional memories of warmth and safeness and self-compassionate abilities play a central role in adaptive emotion regulation and mental health. Further, it is pointed out that distinct mechanisms may mediate the association between emotional experiences and depressive symptoms.

    Method and Aim: Participants were 389 men and women from the general population, aged between 18 and 50 years old (M = 31.84; SD= 10.97), who completed a set of self-report measures of early memories of warmth and safeness, self-compassion, social safeness, experiential avoidance, and depression symptoms. The current study examined an integrative model that hypothesized that the association between early affiliative memories and self-compassionate abilities with depressive symptomatology are mediated by social closeness and experiential avoidance.

    Results: Results confirmed the adequacy of the tested model, which accounted for 34% of the depressive symptoms variance. Results revealed that early emotional memories of warmth and safeness and self-compassionate abilities were associated with increased depressive symptoms, through higher feelings of safeness and closeness within the social arena and lower adoption of maladaptive experiential avoidance strategies.

    Conclusions: These findings contribute to the clarification of the effect of early positive emotional memories and self-compassionate abilities on mental health. Moreover, present data highlight the importance of affiliative and acceptance competences as emotion regulation mediational mechanisms to promote mental health.

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