title: Self-reported emotion regulation in adults with Tourette's syndrome.
abstract: Recent work has reported mild impairments in social and emotional processing in Tourette's syndrome (TS), but deliberate attempts to use specific emotion regulation strategies have not been investigated previously. In the present study, adult participants with TS and no comorbidities (TS-alone) were compared to healthy control participants on several self-report measures assessing habitual use of reappraisal and suppression emotion regulation strategies. There were no group differences on measures of reappraisal, but the TS-alone group reported using suppression more frequently than the control group and this was true across a range of negative emotions. The groups did not differ on symptomatology scores of anxiety or depression, although more frequent use of suppression was associated with higher depressive symptomatology for the TS-alone group only. Further work is needed to examine potential factors that may influence emotion regulation in TS, including increased emotional reactivity or expertise in applying strategies to suppress tic symptoms.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom. Electronic address: helena.drury@slam.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: Helena
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Drury
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Verity
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
authors.affiliation: Emeritus Professor of Neuropsychiatry, University College London, United Kingdom; Department of Neurology, St. George's Hospital, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Mary M
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Shelley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Channon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D003863:Depression / Q000523:psychology; D000066498:Emotional Adjustment; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D057566:Self Report; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D005879:Tourette Syndrome / Q000523:psychology*
keywords: Emotion regulation; Reappraisal; Social cognition; Suppression; Tourette's syndrome