@article {1599716,
	title = {Low emotional awareness as a transdiagnostic mechanism underlying psychopathology in adolescence.},
	journal = {Clinical Psychological Science},
	volume = {8},
	number = {6},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {971-988},
	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.},
	url = {https://doi.org/10.1177/2167702620923649},
	author = {D.G. Weissman and E.C. Nook and A. A. Dews and A.B. Miller and H.K. Lambert and S.F. Sasse and Somerville, L. H. and McLaughlin, K. A.}
}
