The Effect of Cognitive Emotion Regulation and Cognitive Perfectionism on Mental Health of Chinese Students

The uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the importance of understanding how attitudes towards uncertainty affect well-being. Intolerance of uncertainty is a trait associated with anxiety, worry, and mood disorders. As adaptive emotion regulation supports well-being and mental health, it is possible that intolerance of uncertainty decreases the capacity to use adaptive emotion regulation and increases the use of maladaptive strategies. However, little research exists on the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and use of cognitive emotion regulation strategies, such as reappraisal and suppression. Study 1 demonstrated that scores on the Intolerance of Uncertainty Scale were associated with greater worry related to the COVID-19 pandemic, decreased capacity to implement reappraisal, and greater self-reported use of suppression in daily life. Study 2 provided a preregistered replication of these findings. These results suggest that intolerance of uncertainty may impact mental health by reducing the capacity and tendency to use adaptive emotion regulation.

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Relationship between early language competence and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescence

10.31234/osf.io/6seyd ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Louise Griffiths ◽

Chatrin Suksasilp ◽

Laura Lucas ◽

Catherine L. Sebastian ◽

Courtenay Norbury

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Cognitive Skills ◽

Language Disorder ◽

Language Skills ◽

Negative Emotions ◽

Large Population ◽

School Entry ◽

Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽

Good Mental Health

Background Effective use of cognitive reappraisal strategies for emotion regulation improves throughout adolescence and promotes good mental health. Language skills may partially drive improvements in reappraisal efficacy, meaning children with neurodevelopmental conditions that affect language may not learn to regulate emotions as effectively as their peers. Method Data are from the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study (SCALES); a large, population derived cohort of children with diverse language and cognitive skills. We tested whether language skills at school entry predicted success in regulating negative emotions at age 10-11 using a temporal distancing strategy, in a task that utilised hypothetical distressing scenarios. We additionally compared children that met the criteria for Language Disorder (LD) in Year 1 to children with typical language, on their temporal distancing performance. Results Across the whole sample (N = 344), language skills at school entry predicted emotion regulation success in Year 6 (β = .23), over and above the concurrent association between language and regulation success. A quarter of children with LD were unable to complete the temporal distancing task. These children had more severe language difficulties, lower non-verbal IQ and more comorbid conditions. There was no evidence that children with LD that could engage in the task were less successful in using the temporal distancing strategy to reduce negative emotions compared to peers with typical language. Discussion There is a longitudinal relationship between language skills at school entry and the ability to use reappraisal for emotion regulation in early adolescence. This suggests that language may help children learn how to effectively regulate their emotions. Many children with LD were unable to participate in the task. This has implications for clinicians addressing mental health needs for children with neurodevelopmental conditions that affect language, as conversations about emotions and emotion regulation are an integral part of therapy.

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A MENTÁLIS EGÉSZSÉG KONTINUUM SKÁLA RÖVID VÁLTOZATÁNAK HAZAI VALIDÁCIÓJA

Magyar Pszichológiai Szemle ◽

10.1556/0016.2020.00014 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 75 (2) ◽

pp. 217-246

Author(s):

Reinhardt Melinda ◽

Horváth Zsolt ◽

Tóth László ◽

Kökönyei Gyöngyi

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Big Five ◽

Structural Equation ◽

Short Form ◽

Well Being ◽

Equation Modeling ◽

Subjective Well Being ◽

Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽

Hungarian Version

Háttér és célkitűzésekA Mentális Egészség Két-kontinuum Modellje a mentális egészség pozitív összetevőit, a szubjektív jóllét komponenseit összegzi. Vizsgálatunkban a modell alapján létrehozott Mentális Egészség Kontinuum Skála rövid változatának (rövid MEKS) pszichometriai mutatóit és faktorszerkezetét teszteltük hazai felnőtt egyetemista mintán.Módszer552 egyetemista (71,5% nő, átlagéletkor = 22,09 év, szórás = 3,66) vett részt a keresztmetszeti elrendezésű vizsgálatban, akiket a következő kérdőívek kitöltésére kértünk: Mentális Egészség Kontinuum Skála - rövid változat; Majdnem Tökéletes Skála - rövid változat; Depresszió, Szorongás és Stressz Kérdőív - rövid változat (DASS-21); Kognitív Érzelem Reguláció Kérdőív - rövid változat és Big Five Személyiség- leltár-2 (BFI-2).EredményekA Mentális Egészség Kontinuum Skála rövid változatának a tételek kereszttöltéseit is megengedő (Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling, ESEM) bifaktoros szerkezetét erősítettük meg: a globális szubjektív jóllét faktor erős jelenléte mellett az eredeti szerző, Corey L. M. Keyes által leírt három specifikus (érzelmi, pszichológiai és társas) jóllét faktor is megerősítést nyert. A bifaktoros ESEM modell nemi invarianciáját is sikerült igazolnunk. A mérőeszköz megbízhatósági eredményei kiválóak (ω = 0,79-0,92 között), ahogyan validitása is bizonyítást nyert: az elvártaknak megfelelően a pozitív mentális egészség mutatók (teljes rövid MEKS és alskálái) a depresszív, a szorongásos és a stressz tünetekkel, valamint az önkritikus, maladaptív perfekcionizmussal fordított irányú együtt járást mutatnak, míg az adaptív kognitív érzelemregulációs stratégiákkal és az alkalmazkodást segítő személyiségvonásokkal (barátságosság, lelkiismeretesség, érzelmi stabilitás, extraverzió) pozitív kapcsolatban állnak.KövetkeztetésekEredményeink szerint egy valid, a szubjektív jóllét szintet globálisan és annak egyes területeit is megbízhatóan mérő önkitöltős kérdőívet tudtunk bevezetni a magyar tesztállományba.Background and aimsThe Two Continua Model of Mental Health summarizes the positive components of mental health. Our aim was to test the psychometric characteristics and the factor structure of the Hungarian version of the Mental Health Continuum-Short Form (MHC-SF), a measurement based on the Two Continua Model of Mental Health, among Hungarian university students.Methods552 university students (71.5% women, mean age = 22.09, SD = 3,66) took part in the cross-sectional research. Respondents filled out the following questionnaires: Hungarian version of the MHC-SF; the Short Form of the Revised Almost Perfect Scale; the Depression Anxiety and Stress Scales (DASS-21), the short version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire; the Big Five Invento- ry-2.ResultsWe strenghtened the bifactor structure of the Hungarian version of the MHC-SF in Exploratory Structural Equation Modeling (ESEM) framework, which allows the cross-loadings of the items. Beside the strong global subjective well-being factor specific (emotional, psychological, and social) well-being factors emerged. Measurement invariance across gender is also demonstrated. The reliabilty of the Hungarian MHC-SF is excellent (ω = 0.79-0.92), as well as its validity. As it was expected, indicators of positive mental health associated negatively with depressive, anxiety, and stress symptoms, furthermore self-critical and maladaptive perfectionism. In contrast, global and specific components of subjective well-being were in positive association with adaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies and certain personality traits, like agreeableness, conscientiousness, emotional stability, and extraversion.ConclusionsAccording to our results a valid questionnaire was introduced into the Hungarian test system, which can reliably measure global subjective well-being, as well as its specific components.

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Relationship between early language competence and cognitive emotion regulation in adolescence

Royal Society Open Science ◽

10.1098/rsos.210742 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 8 (10) ◽

Author(s):

Sarah Griffiths ◽

Chatrin Suksasilp ◽

Laura Lucas ◽

Catherine L. Sebastian ◽

Courtenay Norbury ◽

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Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Language Disorder ◽

Language Skills ◽

School Entry ◽

Mental Health Needs ◽

Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽

Language Competence ◽

Good Mental Health ◽

Language Difficulties

Cognitive emotion regulation improves throughout adolescence and promotes good mental health. Here, we test whether language skills at school entry predict success in emotion regulation in an experimental task at age 10–11, using longitudinal data from the Surrey Communication and Language in Education Study. We additionally compared the performance of children with and without language disorder (LD). Across the whole sample ( N = 344), language skills at school entry predicted emotion regulation success in Year 6 ( β = 0.23), over and above the concurrent association between language and regulation success. There was no evidence that children with LD that could engage in the task were less successful regulators compared to peers with typical language. However, a quarter of children with LD were unable to complete the task. These children had more severe language difficulties, lower non-verbal IQ and more comorbid conditions. This has implications for clinicians addressing mental health needs for children with neurodevelopmental conditions that affect language, as conversations about emotions and emotion regulation are an integral part of therapy. The longitudinal relationship between language skills and the capacity to use temporal distancing for emotion regulation in early adolescence suggests that language may drive improvements in emotion regulation.

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Pengaruh regulasi emosi kognitif terhadap depresi pada mahasiswa tingkat akhir dimasa pandemi covid-19

Cognicia ◽

10.22219/cognicia.v9i2.18023 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 76-84

Author(s):

Vira Qoyyum Maslita ◽

Putri Saraswati ◽

Udi Rosida Hijrianti

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Mental Health Problems ◽

Sampling Technique ◽

Research Data ◽

Simple Linear Regression ◽

Research Subjects ◽

Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽

Symptoms Of Depression ◽

Regression Test

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected people’s mental health, especially in the education sector. One of the mental health problems that often occur in students who are completing their final assignments are symptoms of depression. Cognitive emotion regulation is one capacity to overcome depression with the use of adaptive approach. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of cognitive emotion regulation on depression in final year students in Indonesia during the covid-19 pandemic. This study uses a quantitative approach. The research subjects were 349 final year students and their data were taken using an accidental sampling technique. Analysis of research data used the simple linear regression test. The results showed that there was a significant influence between cognitive emotion regulation and depression (p = 0.00). The effect of cognitive emotion regulation shown is 4.2% of the variance of depression. Keywords: Cognitive emotion regulation, college students, covid-19, depression, final assignment

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The Role of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Strategies, Cognitive Flexibility, and Distress Tolerance in Death Anxiety Among Women with Hypertension: A Descriptive Correlation Study

Jundishapur Journal of Chronic Disease Care ◽

10.5812/jjcdc.104117 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol In Press (In Press) ◽

Author(s):

Mehrdad Ghanbarpoor Ganjari ◽

Zahra Khanmohammadzadeh ◽

Hanieh Nobakht ◽

Habib Eslami Kenarsari

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Cognitive Flexibility ◽

Death Anxiety ◽

Stepwise Regression ◽

Distress Tolerance ◽

Emotion Regulation Strategies ◽

Cognitive Emotion Regulation ◽

Regulation Strategies

Background: Death anxiety and its consequence are among the most important mental health issues that should be considered in hypertension patients. Some studies reported that cognitive emotion regulation strategies, cognitive flexibility, and distress tolerance, both influence and predict mental health. Objectives: This study aimed to investigate the role of these variables on death anxiety among women with hypertension. Methods: This is a descriptive correlational study that was conducted on 150 women with hypertension who were referred to hospitals in Rasht in 2018. Participants were selected using the convenience sampling method. Death Anxiety scale (DAS), the Distress Tolerance scale (DTS), the cognitive flexibility inventory (CFI), and the short version of the Cognitive Emotion Regulation questionnaire (CERQ) were used to collect the data. Data were analyzed using both descriptive (means and standard deviations) and inferential (the Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise regression analysis) analyzes using SPSS. Results: Overall cognitive emotion regulation strategies (r = -0.20), refocus on planning (r = -0.28), acceptance (r = -0.35), positive reappraisal (r = -0.20), and putting into perspective (r = -0.42) had diverse significant relationships with death anxiety. In contrast, catastrophizing (r = 0.19), rumination (r = 0.19), and self-blame (r = 0.16) had direct significant correlations. Besides, overall cognitive flexibility (r = 0.61), controllability (r = -0.21), alternatives (r = -0.44), behavioral justification (r = -0.23), overall distress tolerance (r = -0.21), tolerance (r = -0.18), appraisal (r = -0.15), and regulation (r = -0.17) had diverse significant correlations with death anxiety; however, absorption (r = 0.52) had a direct significant relationship with death (P ≤ 0.05). The results of the stepwise regression analysis indicated that the research variables were could explain 71% of the variance in death anxiety (R2 = 0.71), and overall cognitive flexibility had the strongest role in explaining death anxiety (beta = -0.67), which was significant at the 1% level (P ≤ 0.0001). Conclusions: Based on the findings, cognitive emotion regulation strategies, cognitive flexibility, and distress tolerance were associated with death anxiety, and cognitive flexibility had the strongest role in predicting death anxiety.

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A Path Model for Burnout in Community Mental Health Professionals

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health ◽

10.3390/ijerph18189763 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 18 (18) ◽

pp. 9763

Author(s):

Jin-Joo Chang ◽

Sung-Hee Shin

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Emotion Regulation ◽

Community Mental Health ◽

Compassion Fatigue ◽

Mental Health Professionals ◽

Health Professionals ◽

Compassion Satisfaction ◽

Path Model ◽

Nursing Interventions ◽

Cognitive Emotion Regulation

The purpose of this research is to identify a path model to explain burnout in community mental health professionals based on the compassion satisfaction–compassion fatigue (CS-CF) model. A total of 125 mental health professionals, including nurses, social professionals, and psychologists working in mental health welfare centers in various regions across South Korea were surveyed using a structured questionnaire. A path analysis was conducted using SPSS 24.0 and AMOS 24.0. The results showed that compassion satisfaction and compassion fatigue are significant predictors of burnout (β = −0.20, p = 0.011; β = 0.40, p < 0.001, respectively). The indirect pathways associated with burnout included occupational stress (β = 0.21, p = 0.021) and experience with aggressive behavior in the workplace (β = 0.33, p = 0.004) through maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation and compassion satisfaction. The total effect of the variables on burnout via compassion fatigue and compassion satisfaction explained 62.5% of burnout among mental health professionals. These findings indicate that providing nursing interventions might reduce compassion fatigue and increase compassion satisfaction to reduce burnout. Furthermore, intervention programs that help to reduce the use of maladaptive cognitive emotion regulation strategies are necessary to effectively reduce burnout in mental health professionals.

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