Abstract
Emotion Regulation, Effort and Fatigue: Complex Issues Worth Investigating.
Highlights
Emotion regulation (ER) refers to the processes by which individuals can influence the type of emotions they have, for how long as well as how strongly they experience and express them
Investigating if and how ER effectiveness can diminish as a result of investing effort and the resulting fatigue is crucially important, as in daily life people are often put in circumstances that routinely require prolonged, incessant or recurring engagement in ER during work, education and self-regulated learning (Ben-Eliyahu and Linnenbrink-Garcia, 2013) as well as social interactions
Previous studies have offered very valuable knowledge, they have not yet provided a comprehensive picture of how ER effectiveness can change due to effort and fatigue
Summary
Emotion regulation (ER) refers to the processes by which individuals can influence the type of emotions they have, for how long as well as how strongly they experience and express them. Following the proposed psychological models of ego-depletion and/or mental fatigue, prolonged engagement in effortful ER can potentially be accompanied by (1) shifting attentional focus, away from the cues signaling the need to restrain impulsive or habitual behavior, and toward the cues signaling gratification; (2) decreasing motivation for continual engagement in the effortful self-control, and—on the flip side—increasing motivation to behave impulsively or habitually (Inzlicht and Schmeichel, 2012; Inzlicht et al, 2014); (3) decreased activation of the longterm goals, in favor of the short-term ones (Herlambang et al, 2021b); (4) automatic cost-opportunity calculations leading one to diminish their investment in self-control exertion (Kurzban et al, 2013) These changes undermine one’s ability to exert self-control with the same effectiveness and lead to decreases in performance quality. (1) To inspect the effects of effort and fatigue on ER effectiveness, it would be beneficial for studies to adopt a dynamic view, in which within-episode (or within-task) changes in ER effectiveness are analyzed, based on studies
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