Interrelationships between childhood maltreatment, emotion regulation strategies, and internalizing problems in Chinese college students: A network analysis approach.

Key Points

• The study aims to explore how childhood maltreatment and emotion regulation strategies relate to internalizing problems in college students.
• Utilized a network analysis approach
• Analyzed data from Chinese college students
• Focused on the role of emotional abuse
• Emotional abuse significantly impacts internalizing problems
• Maladaptive emotion regulation strategies are associated with both childhood maltreatment and internalizing issues
• Network analysis clarifies complex interrelationships among these variables