scholarly journals Dysfunctional Eating in an Australian Community Sample: The Role of Emotion Regulation, Impulsivity, and Reward and Punishment Sensitivity

2014 ◽  
Vol 49 (6) ◽  
pp. 358-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peta Stapleton ◽  
Melissa Whitehead
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Punishment Sensitivity ◽  
Reward And Punishment

Childhood trauma and psychotic experiences in a general population sample: A prospective study on the mediating role of emotion regulation

2017 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 111-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
T.M. Lincoln ◽  
N. Marin ◽  
E.S. Jaya
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Childhood Trauma ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
The United States ◽  
Symptom Distress ◽  
Equation Modeling ◽  
Psychotic Experiences ◽  
Mediating Role ◽  
Symptom Frequency

AbstractBackgroundThe causal role of childhood trauma for psychosis is well established, but the mechanisms that link trauma to psychosis are largely unknown. Since childhood trauma is known to cause difficulties in emotion regulation (ER) and patients with psychosis show impaired ER, we hypothesize that impaired ER explains why people with a background of trauma are prone to psychotic experiences.MethodsThe study used a longitudinal cohort design based on a community sample (N = 562) from Germany, Indonesia, and the United States. Childhood trauma was assessed at baseline. ER and psychotic experiences (defined as positive symptom frequency and related distress) were measured repeatedly at a 4-, 8-, and 12-month follow-up. Cross-lagged panel and longitudinal mediation analyses with structural equation modeling were used to test the predictive value of ER on psychotic experiences and its mediating role in the association of childhood trauma and psychotic experiences.ResultsThe cross-lagged paths from impaired ER to symptom distress (but not frequency) were significant. However, there was also evidence for the reverse causation from symptom frequency and distress to impaired ER. ER partially mediated the significant prospective paths from childhood trauma to symptom distress.ConclusionThe findings demonstrate that ER plays a role in translating childhood trauma into distressing psychotic experiences in later life. Moreover, the findings point to a maintenance mechanism in which difficulties in ER and symptom distress exacerbate each other. Thus, ER could be a promising target for interventions aimed at prevention of psychosis.

Reward and punishment sensitivity and alcohol use: The moderating role of executive control

2014 ◽  
Vol 39 (5) ◽  
pp. 945-948 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nienke C. Jonker ◽  
Brian D. Ostafin ◽  
Klaske A. Glashouwer ◽  
Madelon E. van Hemel-Ruiter ◽  
Peter J. de Jong
Keyword(s):  
Alcohol Use ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Punishment Sensitivity ◽  
Moderating Role ◽  
Reward And Punishment

scholarly journals Testing the role of reward and punishment sensitivity in avoidance behavior: A computational modeling approach

2015 ◽  
Vol 283 ◽  
pp. 121-138 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jony Sheynin ◽  
Ahmed A. Moustafa ◽  
Kevin D. Beck ◽  
Richard J. Servatius ◽  
Catherine E. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Computational Modeling ◽  
Avoidance Behavior ◽  
Modeling Approach ◽  
Punishment Sensitivity ◽  
Reward And Punishment

Psychedelic use and intimate partner violence: The role of emotion regulation

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (7) ◽  
pp. 749-755 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michelle S Thiessen ◽  
Zach Walsh ◽  
Brian M Bird ◽  
Adele Lafrance
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Physical Violence ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Negative Relationship ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Lysergic Acid ◽  
Lysergic Acid Diethylamide

Background: Recent evidence suggests that psychedelic use predicts reduced perpetration of intimate partner violence among men involved in the criminal justice system. However, the extent to which this association generalizes to community samples has not been examined, and potential mechanisms underlying this association have not been directly explored. Aims: The present study examined the association between lifetime psychedelic use and intimate partner violence among a community sample of men and women. The study also tested the extent to which the associations were mediated by improved emotion regulation. Methods: We surveyed 1266 community members aged 16–70 (mean age=22.78, standard deviation =7.71) using an online questionnaire that queried substance use, emotional regulation, and intimate partner violence. Respondents were coded as psychedelic users if they reported one or more instance of using lysergic acid diethylamide and/or psilocybin mushrooms in their lifetime. Results/outcomes: Males reporting any experience using lysergic acid diethylamide and/or psilocybin mushrooms had decreased odds of perpetrating physical violence against their current partner (odds ratio=0.42, p<0.05). Furthermore, our analyses revealed that male psychedelic users reported better emotion regulation when compared to males with no history of psychedelic use. Better emotion regulation mediated the relationship between psychedelic use and lower perpetration of intimate partner violence. This relationship did not extend to females within our sample. Conclusions/interpretation: These findings extend prior research showing a negative relationship between psychedelic use and intimate partner violence, and highlight the potential role of emotion regulation in this association.

INTEGRATING SOCIAL COMPARISON INTO THE UNDERSTANDING OF EMOTION REGULATION IN BORDERLINE PERSONALITY

2020 ◽  
Vol 39 (8) ◽  
pp. 727-760
Author(s):  
Kim L. Gratz ◽  
Julia R. Richmond ◽  
Keith A. Edmonds ◽  
Jason P. Rose ◽  
Matthew T. Tull
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Social Comparison ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Reassurance Seeking ◽  
The Social ◽  
Interaction Task

Introduction: Theory and research suggest the need to expand research on emotion regulation (ER) within borderline personality disorder (BPD). This research examined the relations of BPD symptoms to interpersonal (venting, reassurance-seeking) and socially-oriented (social comparison) ER strategies (in addition to acceptance and avoidance), and explored the role of trait social comparison orientation (SCO) in these relations. Methods: In Study 1, a nationwide community sample of women completed questionnaires. In Study 2, a university sample of young women completed questionnaires and an online social interaction task (following which they reported on the strategies they used to regulate emotions during the task). Results: Results revealed significant indirect relations of BPD symptoms to venting and reassurance-seeking through trait SCO, reassurance-seeking and social comparison through upward SCO, and the in-vivo use of downward social comparison and avoidance strategies during the social interaction task through upward SCO. Discussion: Results highlight the relevance of trait SCO (particularly upward SCO) to socially-oriented ER strategies among women with heightened BPD symptoms.

scholarly journals Empathic emotion regulation in prosocial behavior and altruism

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin M. Brethel-Haurwitz ◽  
Maria Stoianova ◽  
Abigail Marsh
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Negative Affect ◽  
Prosocial Behavior ◽  
Emotional Regulation ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Prosocial Motivation ◽  
Donation Behavior ◽  
Independent Effects

The emotions evoked in response to others’ distress are important for motivating concerned prosocial responses. But how various forms of emotional regulation shape prosocial responding is not yet well understood. When does regulation of empathy lead to prosocial motivation versus personal distress or apathy? We tested the role of empathic emotion regulation in promoting prosocial motivation and costly donations across two studies, first in a community sample and then in a sample of altruistic kidney donors and a matched comparison sample. Participants engaged in hopeful and distancing reappraisals while viewing images of others in distress, then decided whether to help by donating a portion of a monetary endowment to charity. Whereas hope was expected to evoke approach-based motivation indexed by increased donations, distance was expected to evoke avoidance-based motivation indexed by decreased donations. It was hypothesized that varying effects of the two reappraisals on positive and negative affect would influence donation decisions. Across both studies, both reappraisals decreased negative affect. Hopeful reappraisal also increased positive affect. Instructed reappraisal also altered donation behavior in the community sample: here, hopeful reappraisal resulted in higher donations than distancing reappraisal. Altruists were more prosocial overall, but the associations between affect and donation behavior in this group mirrored that of the hopeful reappraisal in the larger community sample, suggesting that altruists might adopt a more hopeful and compassionate appraisal by default. These findings further clarify the role of empathic emotion regulation in prosocial behavior and also independent effects of positive and negative affect.

scholarly journals Poor Emotion Regulation Ability Mediates the Link between Depressive Symptoms and Affective Bipolarity - Preprint

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Egon Dejonckheere
Keyword(s):  
Emotion Regulation ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Negative Emotion ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Positive And Negative Affect ◽  
Mediation Analyses ◽  
Mediating Mechanisms ◽  
Emotional Complexity ◽  
The Relationship

People’s relationship between positive and negative affect varies on a continuum from relatively independent to bipolar opposites, with stronger bipolar opposition being termed affective bipolarity. Experiencing more depressive symptoms is associated with increased bipolarity, but the processes underlying this relation are not yet understood. Here, we sought to replicate this link, and to examine the role of two potential mediating mechanisms: emotion regulation ability, and trait brooding. Drawing from the Dynamic Model of Affect, we hypothesized that (a) a poor ability to regulate negative emotion, and (b) the tendency to brood over one’s depressed feelings would predict stronger affective bipolarity, and mediate the relationship between depressive symptoms and affective bipolarity. To measure affective bipolarity, we calculated within-person affect correlations using two weeks of experience sampling data from a community sample (n = 100). Mediation analyses indicated that baseline assessments of an inability to regulate negative emotions in general, but not brooding specifically, mediated the relation between depressive symptoms and affective bipolarity. These findings highlight an initial mechanism through which depressive symptoms are associated with lower emotional complexity and flexibility.

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