Four attachment-based categories of emotion regulation in adolescent psychic troubles.

Introduction: Emotion regulation is altered in many psychiatric disorders in adolescence, but the understanding of mechanisms that underlie this alteration is still poor.

Methods: The PERCEPT study explores alexithymia, empathy, facial emotion recognition (FER) and defence mechanisms in a sample of adolescents in psychiatric care ( = 61, 74% of girls, mean age = 15.03 y.