The impact of attachment status on improvements in depressive symptoms, emotional exhaustion, and emotion regulation strategies in the in-patient treatment of patients presenting with burnout syndrome

2018 ◽  
Vol 109 ◽  
pp. 136-137
Author(s):  
W. Söllner ◽  
M.M. Müller ◽  
J. Behringer
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Emotional Exhaustion ◽  
Burnout Syndrome ◽  
Patient Treatment ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
The Impact

scholarly journals The simultaneous use of Emotional suppression and Situation selection to regulate emotions incrementally favors physiological responses

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Simon Thuillard ◽  
Elise S. Dan-Glauser
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Repeated Measures ◽  
Emotional Responses ◽  
Cardiac Activity ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Emotional Suppression ◽  
Negative Experience ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
Simultaneous Use ◽  
The Impact

Abstract Background Emotion regulation alters the trajectories of emotional responses and, when effective, transforms the emotional responses to help individuals adapt to their environment. Previous research has mainly focused on the efficiency of regulation strategies performed individually at a given time. Yet, in daily life, it is likely that several strategies are often combined. Thus, we question in this study the combinatorial efficiency of two emotion regulation strategies, Situation selection and Emotional suppression. Methods In a within-subject design, sixty-five participants were asked to implement either no strategy, Situation selection only, Emotional suppression only, or both strategies together (four conditions) while looking at various emotionally charged images. Experience, expressivity, and physiological arousal were recorded throughout the viewing. Repeated-measures ANOVAs and corrected post-hoc tests were used for analyzing the data. Results The results of the combined strategies showed that Emotional suppression canceled the beneficial impact of Situation selection on negative experience, while significantly increasing the impact on cardiac activity. The use of both strategies together had a greater effect on respiratory function with an enhanced decrease in respiratory rate and amplitude. Conclusions The combinatorial effect of emotion regulation strategies is different according to the emotional response that the individual needs to regulate. The simultaneous use of Situation selection and Emotional suppression could be particularly beneficial to relieve physiological symptoms.

scholarly journals Safe in my heart: resting heart rate variability longitudinally predicts emotion regulation, worry and sense of safeness during COVID-19 lockdown

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Makovac ◽  
Luca Carnevali ◽  
Sonia Hernandez-Medina ◽  
Andrea Sgoifo ◽  
Nicola Petrocchi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Heart Rate ◽  
Heart Rate Variability ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Current Data ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Stress Resilience ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Due to its ability to reflect the capacity to engage in context-appropriate responses, tonic heart rate variability (HRV) is considered a putative biomarker of stress resilience. However, most studies are cross-sectional, precluding causal inferences. The high levels of uncertainty and fear at a global level that characterize the COVID-19 pandemic offer a unique opportunity to investigate the longitudinal role of HRV in stress resilience. The present study examined whether HRV, measured about 2 years earlier (Time 0), could predict emotion regulation strategies and daily affect in healthy adults during the May 2020 lockdown (Time 1). Moreover, we evaluated the association between HRV measures, emotion regulation strategies, subjective perception of COVID-19 risk, and self-reported depressive symptoms at Time 1. Higher tonic HRV at Time 0 resulted a significant predictor of a stronger engagement in more functional emotion regulation strategies, as well as of higher daily feelings of safeness and reduced daily worry at Time 1. Moreover, depressive symptoms negatively correlated with HRV and positively correlated with the subjective perception of COVID-19 risk at Time 1. Current data support the view that HRV might be not only a marker but also a precursor of resilience under stressful times.

scholarly journals Examining emotion regulation in binge-eating disorder

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Walenda ◽  
Barbara Kostecka ◽  
Philip S. Santangelo ◽  
Katarzyna Kucharska
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Eating Disorder ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Binge Eating ◽  
Binge Eating Disorder ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Self Blame ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Abstract Background Inefficient mechanisms of emotional regulation appear essential in understanding the development and maintenance of binge-eating disorder (BED). Previous research focused mainly on a very limited emotion regulation strategies in BED, such as rumination, suppression, and positive reappraisal. Therefore, the aim of the study was to assess a wider range of emotional regulation strategies (i.e. acceptance, refocusing on planning, positive refocusing, positive reappraisal, putting into perspective, self-blame, other-blame, rumination, and catastrophizing), as well as associations between those strategies and binge-eating-related beliefs (negative, positive, and permissive), and clinical variables (eating disorders symptoms, both anxiety, depressive symptoms, and alexithymia). Methods Women diagnosed with BED (n = 35) according to the DSM-5 criteria and healthy women (n = 41) aged 22–60 years were assessed using: the Eating Attitudes Test-26, the Eating Beliefs Questionnaire-18, the Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale, the Toronto Alexithymia Scale-20, the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale. Statistical analyses included: Student t - tests or Mann–Whitney U tests for testing group differences between BED and HC group, and Pearson’s r coefficient or Spearman’s rho for exploring associations between the emotion regulation difficulties and strategies, and clinical variables and binge-eating-related beliefs in both groups. Results The BED group presented with a significantly higher level of emotion regulation difficulties such as: nonacceptance of emotional responses, lack of emotional clarity, difficulties engaging in goal-directed behavior, impulse control difficulties, and limited access to emotion regulation strategies compared to the healthy controls. Moreover, patients with BED were significantly more likely to use maladaptive strategies (rumination and self-blame) and less likely to use adaptive strategies (positive refocusing and putting into perspective). In the clinical group, various difficulties in emotion regulation difficulties occurred to be positively correlated with the level of alexithymia, and anxiety and depressive symptoms. Regarding emotion regulation strategies, self-blame and catastrophizing were positively related to anxiety symptoms, but solely catastrophizing was related to the severity of eating disorder psychopathology. Conclusions Our results indicate an essential and still insufficiently understood role of emotional dysregulation in BED. An especially important construct in this context seems to be alexithymia, which was strongly related to the majority of emotion regulation difficulties. Therefore, it might be beneficial to pay special attention to this construct when planning therapeutic interventions, as well as to the maladaptive emotion regulation strategies self-blame and catastrophizing, which were significantly related to BED psychopathology.

scholarly journals COVID-19 pandemic and health worker stress: The mediating effect of emotional regulation

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoilo Emilio García-Batista ◽  
Kiero Guerra-Peña ◽  
Vahid Nouri Kandany ◽  
Maria Isabel Marte ◽  
Luis Eduardo Garrido ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Health Personnel ◽  
Mediating Effect ◽  
Continuous Exposure ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Emotion Suppression ◽  
Stress Levels ◽  
Regulation Strategies ◽  
The Impact

AbstractBackground/IntroductionPsychological and physical well-being of health personnel has been significantly affected by COVID-19. Work overload and continuous exposure to positive COVID-19 cases have caused them fatigue, stress, anxiety, insomnia and other detriments. This research aims: 1) to analyze whether the use of cognitive reevaluation and emotional suppression strategies decreases and increases, respectively, stress levels of health personnel; 2) to quantify the impact of contact with patients with COVID-19 on stress’s level of medical staff.MethodEmotion regulation strategies and stress level were evaluated in 155 Dominican physicians by means of psychological tests with adequate levels of reliability. In addition, a questionnaire created by the researchers quantified the impact that contact with those infected had on their stress levels.ResultsContact with patients with COVID-19 predicts increased use of emotion suppression strategies, although is not associated with the use of cognitive reevaluation. These findings lead to an even greater increase in stress on health care providers.ConclusionsContextual contingencies demand immediate responses and may not allow health personnel to use cognitive re-evaluation strategies, leaning more towards emotion suppression. However, findings regarding high levels of stress require the implementation of intervention programs focused on the promotion of more functional emotion regulation strategies. Such programs may reduce current stress and prevent post-traumatic symptoms.

scholarly journals Alexithymia predicts maladaptive but not adaptive emotion regulation strategies in adolescent girls with anorexia nervosa or depression

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anca Sfärlea ◽  
Sandra Dehning ◽  
Lena Katharina Keller ◽  
Gerd Schulte-Körne
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Anorexia Nervosa ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Adolescent Girls ◽  
Mental Health Problems ◽  
Psychiatric Patients ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽  
Difficulties In Emotion Regulation ◽  
Regulation Strategies

Abstract Background Among adolescent girls, anorexia nervosa (AN) and major depression (MD) are common and often comorbid mental health problems. Both disorders are characterised by difficulties in recognising and verbalising (alexithymia) as well as regulating one’s emotions, but research in adolescent patients is scarce and little is known about the relation between alexithymia and difficulties in emotion regulation. The aims of this study were to investigate alexithymia and emotion regulation skills in adolescents with AN, adolescents with MD, and healthy adolescents, and to determine whether alexithymia functions as a predictor for emotion regulation skills. Methods Emotion regulation strategies, alexithymia, and depressive symptoms were assessed by questionnaire measures in 12–18 year old girls with AN (n = 26), girls with MD (n = 25), and healthy girls (n = 35). Groups were compared with respect to the these variables and multiple regression analyses were calculated separately for adaptive and maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in order to examine if alexithymia predicted emotion regulation over and above age and depressive symptoms. Results Girls with AN or MD both reported using adaptive emotion regulation strategies less frequently and maladaptive emotion regulation skills more frequently as well as higher levels of alexithymia compared to healthy girls. Alexithymia positively predicted maladaptive emotion regulation strategies, while depressive symptoms negatively predicted adaptive emotion regulation strategies. Conclusions The results suggest that different mechanisms may underlie the lack of adaptive and the surplus of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies in adolescent psychiatric patients.

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