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Cognitive Psychology

2020

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Childhood Trauma

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Does Psychological Resilience Affect The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experience And Self-Regulation?, Jiacheng Yu Apr 2020

Does Psychological Resilience Affect The Relationship Between Adverse Childhood Experience And Self-Regulation?, Jiacheng Yu

Undergraduate Honors Theses

The present study investigated the potential effect of psychological resilience on the relationship between adverse childhood experience (ACEs) and self-regulation. There were 18 adult participants (five males and 13 females). The ages ranged from 19 to 30 (M = 23.11, SD = 3.39) years old. To measure psychological resilience, ACEs, and self-regulation, participants were required to respectively finish the Connor-Davidson Resilience Scale, the Adverse Childhood Experience Questionnaire, and the Two-Urn Task. Contrary to expectation, data analysis showed that the negative correlation between ACEs and self-regulation remained statistically significant regardless of the resilience level, suggesting that resilience did not alleviate …