scholarly journals Negative views of out-groups and emotion regulation strategies: Evidence for an association with the tendency to suppress emotion expression, but not with cognitive reappraisal or emotion dysregulation

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Minja Westerlund ◽  
Jan Antfolk ◽  
Pekka Santtila
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Emotion Dysregulation ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Online Study ◽  
Positive Attitudes ◽  
Broad Array ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Abstract Emotions influence attitudes and appraisals toward out-groups, including prejudice. We hypothesized that individuals who successfully regulate emotions will express more positive attitudes toward out-groups. We conducted an online study of associations between emotion regulation and attitudes toward out-groups in a Finnish population-based sample (N = 320). As hypothesized, expressive suppression was associated with decreased acceptance toward out-groups, but contrary to our hypothesis, cognitive reappraisal was not associated with increased acceptance. In exploratory analyses, we found that individuals with more cognitive reappraisal (vs. expressive suppression) had a higher acceptance of out-groups, and that emotion regulation may not influence attitudes toward all out-groups equally. In conclusion, we present novel results indicating that habitual emotion regulation strategies are differently associated with attitudes toward a broad array of out-groups, and that the sociocultural aspects of emotion regulation toward out-group attitudes may play a role.

scholarly journals For Body and Mind: Practicing Yoga and Emotion Regulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. e25502 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dorota Kobylińska ◽  
Karol Lewczuk ◽  
Marta Marchlewska ◽  
Aneta Pietraszek
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Personality Traits ◽  
Big Five ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Yoga Practice ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Big Five Model ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Low Levels

The purpose of the present study was to examine if the length of yoga training may influence the use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression (as emotion regulation strategies) and whether this relationship may be moderated by personality traits. Based on previous studies, we hypothesized that the link between the length of yoga practice and emotion regulation can rely most heavily on participants’ conscientiousness and extraversion levels. Ninety women in two groups participated in the study: those who have been practicing yoga for over a year and those who have been practicing for a shorter period of time. An Emotion Regulation Questionnaire was applied to measure the use the strategies of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. Moreover, personality traits, based on the Big Five model were assessed. The results of the study provided support for our prediction: participants who engaged in yoga practice for a longer period of time (as compared to participants who practiced yoga for a shorter duration), reported using cognitive reappraisal more often. Furthermore, longer yoga practice was more beneficial than shorter practice especially for individuals with low levels of conscientiousness and extraversion. Thus, extraversion and conscientiousness seem to facilitate the process of drawing benefits from practicing yoga.

scholarly journals Individual differences in emotion regulation and face recognition

PLoS ONE ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (12) ◽  
pp. e0243209
Author(s):  
Ahmed M. Megreya ◽  
Robert D. Latzman
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Face Recognition ◽  
Individual Differences ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
False Positives ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Face Memory ◽  
Face Matching ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Face recognition ability is highly variable among neurologically intact populations. Across three experiments, this study examined for the first time associations between individual differences in a range of adaptive versus maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and face recognition. Using an immediate face-memory paradigm, in which observers had to identify a self-paced learned unfamiliar face from a 10-face target-present/ target-absent line-up, Experiment 1 (N = 42) found high levels of expressive suppression (the ongoing efforts to inhibit emotion-expressive behaviors), but not cognitive reappraisal (the cognitive re-evaluation of emotional events to change their emotional consequences), were associated with a lower level of overall face-memory accuracy and higher rates of misidentifications and false positives. Experiment 2 (N = 53) replicated these finding using a range of face-matching tasks, where observers were asked to match pairs of same-race or different-race face images taken on the same day or during different times. Once again, high levels of expressive suppression were associated with a lower level of overall face-matching performance and higher rates of false positives, but cognitive reappraisal did not correlate with any face-matching measure. Finally, Experiment 3 (N = 52) revealed that the higher use of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies, especially catastrophizing, was associated with lower levels of overall face-matching performances and higher rates of false positives. All told, the current research provides new evidence concerning the important associations between emotion and cognition.

An Exploratory Study of Self-Consciousness and Emotion-Regulation Strategies in Health Care Workers

2014 ◽  
Vol 115 (1) ◽  
pp. 106-114 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Andela ◽  
Laurent Auzoult ◽  
Didier Truchot
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Internal State ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Care Workers ◽  
Internal States ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategy ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Public Self Consciousness

The goal of this study was to assess relations between public self-consciousness, private self-consciousness (self-reflectiveness and internal state awareness), and two emotion-regulation strategies: cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression. 59 employees of a public hospital completed a survey. Public self-consciousness was not associated with either emotion-regulation strategy, while both dimensions of private self-consciousness were related to the strategies. While self-reflectiveness was correlated with expressive suppression, internal states awareness was associated with cognitive reappraisal.

scholarly journals Do cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression mediate the effect of emotion motives on mood outcomes?

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Joanna Hooper
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Positive Emotions ◽  
Negative Emotions ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Subjective Happiness ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Regulation Strategies

<p>The present investigation was designed to assess whether the emotion regulation strategies of expressive suppression and cognitive reappraisal would mediate the relationships between emotion motives (trying to experience and trying to avoid experiencing positive and negative emotions) and mood outcomes (subjective happiness and depressive symptoms). A sample of 257 first-year psychology students completed questionnaires on emotion regulation and levels of subjective happiness and depressive symptom levels in a concurrent study. As predicted, trying to experience positive emotions positively predicted use of cognitive reappraisal, which, in turn, predicted greater levels of subjective happiness and lower levels of depressive symptoms and trying to avoid experiencing negative emotions positively predicted use of expressive suppression, which, in turn, predicted greater levels of depressive symptoms and lower levels of subjective happiness. In one other mediational pathway, the motive of trying to experience negative emotions positively predicted use of expressive suppression, which was associated with lower levels of subjective happiness and greater levels of depressive symptoms. These results add to the existing emotion regulation research literature by shedding light on what motivates the use of adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. In sum, individuals’ hedonic motives encouraged adaptive emotion regulation efforts, whereas, individuals’ contra-hedonic motives encouraged the use of maladaptive emotion regulation efforts. These findings will be of assistance to clinicians in the development of interventions to improve emotion regulation problems in clients.</p>

scholarly journals Emotion regulation strategies in Russian and Azerbaijani culture

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 44-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
A.A. Pankratova ◽  
E.N. Osin
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Russian Language ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Language Version ◽  
Emotional Processes ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
The Mean

We test the measurement invariance of a Russian-language version of ERQ (Emotion Regulation Questionnaire) by J. Gross in two student samples from Russia (N=282) and Azerbaijan (N=190) with a comparable demographic profile (mean age 19, 33,8% males and 66,2 % females). Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis provided support for strong invariance, which allows to compare mean observed scores across the cultures. We did not find any significant differences in the mean preference for cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression between the cultures. In Russia, the two strategies were independent, whereas Azerbaijani respondents were more likely to use both strategies at the same time (r = .33, p &lt; .01). Males scored higher on expressive suppression both in Russia (d = .40, p &lt; .01) and in Azerbaijan (d = .64, p &lt; .001); we found no gender differences in cognitive reappraisal. The results are interpreted in combination with findings of our previous comparative studies of emotional processes in Russia and Azerbaijan.

scholarly journals Emotion regulation and romantic partners’ relationship satisfaction

2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 145-159
Author(s):  
Igor Kardum ◽  
Asmir Gračanin ◽  
Jasna Hudek-Knežević ◽  
Barbara Blažić
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Relationship Satisfaction ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Romantic Partners ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Romantic Couples ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Interpersonal Effects

Studies investigating the effects of emotion regulation on romantic partners’ relationship satisfaction (RS) found that proneness to use cognitive reappraisal exerts positive, whereas expressive suppression negative effects on both one’s own and partner’s satisfaction. However, no studies explored the effects of partner reported use of the two emotion regulation strategies on RS, which might allow the exclusion of method-related explanations of the previous findings and offer new insights into the mechanisms involved. We tested the hypotheses about the effects of reappraisal and suppression on RS on a sample of 205 romantic couples by using round-robin design and actor-partner interdependence modelling (APIM). Although the effects were relatively small, they were still in line with the assumptions that cognitive reappraisal has positive intra- and interpersonal effects on RS, that they can be generalized across self- and partner reports to a certain extent, and that they are somewhat stronger in women. Considering expressive suppression, only women’s self-reported suppression exerted significant negative intrapersonal effect on RS. Implications of self- and partner reports of emotion regulation for the understanding of the mechanisms mediating its effects on RS are discussed.

The Spanish Version of the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA): A Psychometric Evaluation in Early Adolescence

2019 ◽  
Vol 22 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Carmen Pastor ◽  
Raül López-Penadés ◽  
Eva Cifre ◽  
Diego Moliner-Urdiales
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Positive Affect ◽  
Children And Adolescents ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Early Adolescents ◽  
Depression Symptoms ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Personal Adjustment ◽  
Regulation Strategies

AbstractThis paper presents the translation, adaptation and validation of a broadly used scale to measure emotion regulation strategies (i.e. The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire Children and Adolescents –ERQ-CA; Gullone & Taffe, 2012) in a sample of early adolescents. The 10-item scale was applied to a sample of 248 adolescents (128 boys) aged 13 to 14 years. Semi-confirmatory factor analysis supported the original two-factor structure: Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression (SRMR = .05; RMSEA = .06; CFI = .96). These two factors demonstrate adequate internal consistency and evidence for convergent validity with other scales that refer to emotional intelligence, affect, and behavior. Thus, Cognitive Reappraisal scores were associated with higher self-perceived emotional abilities, positive affect and personal adjustment (ps < .05). Conversely, Expressive Suppression scores were associated with lower self-perceived emotional abilities, positive affect, and personal adjustment (ps < .01), with higher scores on negative affect, school and clinical maladjustment (ps < .01), as well as stress and depression symptoms (ps < .001). Overall, these findings suggest that the questionnaire may be a useful and reliable instrument for the assessment of emotion regulation strategies in early adolescents for future research in Spanish speaking countries.

scholarly journals Emotion Regulation Strategies and Stress in Irish College Students and Chinese International College Students in Ireland

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuning Sun ◽  
Conor Nolan
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
International Students ◽  
Perceived Stress ◽  
Cognitive Reappraisal ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Expressive Suppression ◽  
Irish College ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Little is known about the association between emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress in college students, and in particular the strategies used by international students. Present research examined if differences exist in the use of emotion regulation strategies between Irish college students and Chinese international students, and investigated the relationship between emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress in these two student populations. Chinese students reported more frequent use of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression compared to Irish students. There was a significant negative association between the habitual use of cognitive reappraisal and levels of stress in both Irish and Chinese students. There was a significant positive relationship between the habitual use of expressive suppression and levels of stress in Irish college students, but not in Chinese students. The findings highlight the importance of cultural context when investigating the association between emotion regulation strategies and perceived stress in students.

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