title: Maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and stress sensitivity mediate the relation between adverse life events and attenuated positive psychotic symptoms.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  There is now solid evidence for a relation between adverse life events (ALE) and psychotic symptoms in patients with psychosis and in the general population. A recent study has shown that this relation may be partially mediated by stress sensitivity, suggesting the influence of other factors. The aim of this study was to assess the mediation effect of emotion regulation strategies and stress sensitivity in the relation between ALE and attenuated positive psychotic symptoms (APPS) in the general population.
  
  
  METHODS
  Hundred and twelve healthy volunteers were evaluated with measures of APPS, emotion regulation strategies, ALE and stress sensitivity.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Results demonstrated that the relation between ALE, hallucination and delusion proneness was completely mediated by maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, but not by stress sensitivity. However, in addition to maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, stress sensitivity demonstrated a mediation effect between ALE and attenuated positive psychotic positive symptoms when positive psychotic symptoms were grouped together.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  There are probably several possible trajectories leading to the formation of positive psychotic symptoms and the results of the present study reveal that one such trajectory may involve the maladaptive regulation of negative emotions alongside a certain general vulnerability after experiencing ALE.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Liège , Liège , Belgium.
authors.forename: Julien
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Laloyaux
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies , Institute for Social Sciences of Contemporary Religions, University of Lausanne , Lausanne , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Grégory
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Dessart
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Liège , Liège , Belgium.|c Cognitive Psychopathology and Neuropsychology Unit , University of Geneva , Geneva , Switzerland.
authors.forename: Martial
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Van der Linden
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Liège , Liège , Belgium.
authors.forename: Morgan
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lemaire
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology , University of Liège , Liège , Belgium.|d Department of Biological and Medical Psychology , University of Bergen , Bergen , Norway.
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Larøi
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000069586:Adult Survivors of Child Adverse Events / Q000523:psychology*; D003702:Delusions / Q000523:psychology*; D004644:Emotions; D005260:Female; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D000068356:Self-Control; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Hallucination; delusion; emotion regulation; schizotypy; trauma