Childhood maltreatment is a potent interpersonal trauma associated with dysregulation of emotional processes relevant to the development of psychopathology. The current study identified prospective links between patterns of maltreatment exposures and dimensions of emotion regulation in emerging adulthood. Participants included 427 individuals (48% Male; 75.9% Black, 10.8% White, 7.5% Hispanic, 6% Other) assessed at two waves. At Wave 1, children (10–12 years) from families eligible for public assistance with and without involvement with Child Protective Services took part in a research summer camp. Patterns of child maltreatment subtype and chronicity (based on coded CPS record data) were used to predict Wave 2 (age 18–24 years) profiles of emotion regulation based on self-report, and affective processing assessed via the Affective Go/No-Go task. Results identified associations between task-based affective processing and self-reported emotion regulation profiles. Further, chronic, multi-subtype childhood maltreatment exposure predicted difficulties with aggregated emotion dysregulation. Exposure to neglect with and without other maltreatment subtypes predicted lower sensitivity to affective words. Nuanced results distinguish multiple patterns of emotion regulation in a sample of emerging adults with high exposure to trauma and socioeconomic stress and suggest that maltreatment disrupts emotional development, resulting in difficulties identifying emotions and coping with emotional distress.

童年虐待是一种严重的人际创伤，与精神病理学发展相关的情绪过程失调有关。目前的研究确定了成年初期虐待暴露模式与情绪调节维度之间的前瞻性联系。参与者包括 427 名个体（48% 男性；75.9% 黑人，10.8% 白人，7.5% 西班牙裔，6% 其他），分两轮进行评估。在第一波中，来自有资格获得公共援助（无论是否参与儿童保护服务）的家庭的儿童（10-12 岁）参加了研究夏令营。儿童虐待亚型和慢性模式（基于编码的 CPS 记录数据）用于根据自我报告预测第二波（18-24 岁）情绪调节概况，并通过情感 Go/No-Go 评估情感处理任务。结果确定了基于任务的情感处理和自我报告的情绪调节概况之间的关联。此外，长期、多亚型的童年虐待经历预示着总体情绪失调的困难。在有或没有其他虐待亚型的情况下遭受忽视预示着对情感词语的敏感性较低。细致入微的结果区分了遭受创伤和社会经济压力较高的新兴成年人样本中的多种情绪调节模式，并表明虐待会扰乱情绪发展，导致难以识别情绪和应对情绪困扰。