Stressful events, such as those imposed by the COVID‐19 pandemic, are associated with depression risk, raising questions about processes that make some people more susceptible to the effects of stress… Click to show full abstract
Stressful events, such as those imposed by the COVID‐19 pandemic, are associated with depression risk, raising questions about processes that make some people more susceptible to the effects of stress on mental health than others. Emotion regulation may be a key process, but methods for objectively measuring emotion regulation abilities in youth are limited. We leveraged event‐related potential (ERP) measures and a longitudinal study of adolescents oversampled for depression and depression risk to examine emotion regulation difficulties as prospective predictors of depressive symptoms in response to pandemic‐related stress.
               
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