Internalizing symptoms in adolescence: understanding the role of negative life events, emotion regulation, and the brain over time

A dissertation with a central goal of elucidating to what extent emotion regulation, measured behaviorally and neurobiologically, can explain the association between NLEs experienced in late childhood and the trajectory of internalizing symptoms during the transition from late childhood to early adolescence. Results demonstrate the importance of considering how several distinct facets of emotion regulation may influence symptom fluctuation across the years of a developmental transition in youth who have endorsed challenging experiences.