Abstract

Objectives The purpose of this study was to investigate the dual mediating effects of clarity on emotional awareness and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy between childhood abuse, somatization in adulthood.
 Methods The result of 291 adults between the ages of 20 and 59 were distrivuted to scales of childhood trauma, somatization, clarity on emotional awareness, and cognitive emotion regulation strategy. Descriptive statics, Pearson’s correlation analysis and dual mediation analysis analyzed data via SPSS 25.0, Process Macro 6 model.
 Results First, childhood abuse experience, somatization, and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy were positively correlated with each other, and these three variables were negatively correlated with clarity on emotional awareness. Second, in the relationship between childhood abuse experience and somatization, clarity on emotional awareness and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy showed a dual mediating effect. This means that the higher childhood abuse experience, the higher level of somatization in relationship, the clearer the emotional awareness as an emotional factor, and the less maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy are adopted as a cognitive factor, the lower the somatization.
 Conclusions These findings indicate that it suggests factors for counseling psychological intervention in somatization due to childhood abuse experiences by revealing the dual mediating effect of clarity on emotional awareness and maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategy on the effects of childhood abuse experiences and adult somatization. Limitations and recommendations for future research are presented.

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