Emotion regulation in response to daily negative and positive events in youth: The role of event intensity and psychopathology
Hiekkaranta, Anu P; Kirtley, Olivia J; Lafit, Ginette; Decoster, Jeroen; Derom, Catherine; de Hert, Marc; Gülöksüz, Sinan; Jacobs, Nele; Menne-Lothmann, Claudia; Rutten, Bart P F; Thiery, Evert; van Os, Jim; van Winkel, Ruud; Wichers, Marieke; Myin-Germeys, Inez
(2021) Behaviour Research and Therapy, volume 144, pp. 1 - 14
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Abstract
Environmental and individual contextual factors profoundly influence how people regulate their emotions. The current article addresses the role of event intensity and psychopathology (an admixture of depression, anxiety, and psychoticism) on emotion regulation in response to naturally occurring events. For six days each evening, a youth sample (aged 15-25, N
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= 713) recorded the intensity of the most positive and most negative event of the day and their subsequent emotion regulation. The intensity of negative events was positively associated with summed total emotion regulation effort, strategy diversity, engaging in rumination, situation modification, emotion expression, and sharing and negatively associated with reappraisal and acceptance. The intensity of positive events was positively associated with strategy diversity, savoring, emotion expression, and sharing. Higher psychopathology symptoms were only related to ruminating more about negative events. We interpret these findings as support for the role of context in the degree of effort and type of emotion regulation that young people engage in.
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Keywords: Adolescence, Emotion regulation, Experience sampling method, Positive emotion regulation, Psychopathology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Clinical Psychology, Journal Article
ISSN: 0005-7967
Publisher: Elsevier Limited
Note: Funding Information: Anu Hiekkaranta and Inez Myin-Germeys are supported by an FWO Odysseus grant (Myin-Germeys, FWO GOF8416N ), including a PhD studentship to Anu Hiekkaranta, Olivia Kirtley is supported by a Senior Postdoctoral Fellowship from Research Foundation Flanders ( FWO 1257821N ), and during preparation of this manuscript was also supported by a postdoctoral fellowship from an FWO Odysseus grant to Inez Myin-Germeys ( FWO GOF8416N ). Ruud van Winkel is supported by an FWO Senior Clinical Fellowship ( FWO 1803616N ). Data used in the current study come from the TwinssCan study, which received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Program under grant agreement No. HEALTH-F2-2009-241909 (Project EU-GEI). Sinan Gülöksüz is supported by a ZonMw grant 636340001 from the Ophelia research project . Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier Ltd
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