Figure 3.

Effects of treatment condition on emotional functioning and emotion regulation

Adolescents in cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) rated greater improvements in self-reported emotional functioning (KINDL) and emotion regulation (DERS) between the post-treatment assessment and 3-month follow-up compared to adolescents in mindfulness-based cognitive behavioral therapy (MBCT). Lower Difficulties with emotion regulation scale (DERS) indicate better emotional functioning while higher KINDL emotion functioning scores indicate better functioning. DERS scores were divided by 10 to allow for ease of graphing with the KINDL Emotion Functioning subscale.