@booklet {weissman_low_2019, title = {Low Emotional Awareness as a Transdiagnostic Mechanism Underlying Psychopathology in Adolescence}, volume = {8}, number = {6}, year = {2020}, pages = {971-988}, publisher = {PsyArXiv}, type = {preprint}, abstract = {The ability to identify and label one{\textquoteright}s emotions is associated with effective emotion regulation, rendering emotional awareness important for mental health. We evaluated how emotional awareness was related to psychopathology and whether low emotional awareness was a transdiagnostic mechanism explaining the increase in psychopathology during the transition to adolescence and as a function of childhood trauma{\textemdash}specifically, violence exposure. In Study 1, children and adolescents (N\ = 120, age range = 7{\textendash}19 years) reported on emotional awareness and psychopathology. Emotional awareness was negatively associated with psychopathology (p-factor) and worsened across age in females but not males. In Study 2 (N\ = 262, age range = 8{\textendash}16 years), we replicated these findings and demonstrated longitudinally that low emotional awareness mediated increases in p-factor as a function of age in females and violence exposure. These findings indicate that low emotional awareness may be a transdiagnostic mechanism linking adolescent development, sex, and trauma with the emergence of psychopathology.}, doi = {10.31234/osf.io/49a6h}, url = {https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2167702620923649}, author = {Weissman, David and Nook, Erik C and Dews, Aridenne A. and Miller, Adam Bryant and Lambert, Hilary and Sasse, Stephanie F. and Somerville, Leah and Mclaughlin, Katie A} }