emotion regulation difficulties as a mediator of the relationship between childhood trauma and misophonia as support for cognitive models of misophonia

in a 2026 study the authors examined the relationship between emotion regulation difficulties, childhood trauma, and misophonia symptom severity through a series of questionnaires, finding that emotion regulation difficulties mediated the relationship between childhood trauma and misophonia severity. The authors take this as evidence for cognitive models of these disorders, suggesting that misophonia is driven by emotional processing impairments that result from early life stress, as opposed to being solely a primarily auditory disorder (Kılınçel et al., 2026) .