Université de Fribourg

Depressive symptoms and emotion regulation strategies in children with and without developmental language disorder : a longitudinal study

den Bedem, Neeltje P. ; Dockrell, Julie E. ; Alphen, Petra M. ; Rooij, Mark ; Samson, Andrea C. ; Harjunen, Elina L. ; Rieffe, Carolien

In: International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders, 2018, vol. 53, no. 6, p. 1110-1123

Background: Depressive symptoms are common in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, risk and protective factors contributing to these problems are currently underspecified. Aims: The current longitudinal study examined the role of emotion-regulation (ER) strategies in the severity of depressive symptoms in children with and without DLD, taking into account the severity...