Emotion regulation is linked to symptoms in women with endometriosis
Among women with endometriosis, ways of managing emotions were associated with pain, depressive symptoms and quality of life. These associations do not establish whether changing those strategies improves symptoms.
Based on the published abstract. The full paper may contain additional methods, results and limitations.
The 30-second takeaway
The review linked strategies such as acceptance and self-compassion with more favorable symptom outcomes, while rumination and catastrophizing showed less favorable associations. The relationship with quality of life was more pronounced among younger women. These findings describe patterns among women with endometriosis; they do not demonstrate that teaching a particular strategy reduces pain or depression.
The abstract gives no correlation sizes or confidence intervals, so the strength and precision of the relationships cannot be assessed. It also does not describe the designs or follow-up periods of the underlying studies.
What emotion regulation means
Emotion regulation means how people manage their emotions. The review examined approaches including acceptance, mindfulness and self-compassion, alongside rumination, meaning repeatedly dwelling on thoughts, and catastrophizing, meaning interpreting experiences in especially negative terms.
How age enters the result
Age changed the observed relationship between emotion regulation and quality of life, with a more pronounced association in younger women. This is an age-related pattern in the reviewed evidence, rather than a demonstrated difference in response to psychological treatment.
The original publication
A systematic review and meta-analysis of the relationship between emotion regulation, pain, depressive symptoms and quality of life in women with endometriosis.
Carvalho SA, Eulálio I, Guiomar R
J Psychosom Res · 2025
- PubMed ID
- 40609302
- Record checked
AI-assisted research and writing. This explains one selected publication; it is not a complete review of everything known. Our approach.
One more question, understood.
Keep track of the research you’ve explored.