Abstract
Emotions are a major part of our subjective experiences of the world. At times, our emotions are not appropriate and require active management. Emotion regulation refers to the various ways of managing or controlling emotional responses. External stimuli play specific role in electing emotions. Pictures and movies elicit emotions and emotional effects of films are believed to exceed that of pictures. The aim of the present study is to compare the effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies across emotion induction method (picture and films). Forty participants rated their emotion on Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) ratings for each pictorial and video stimuli while following the emotion regulation instructions. Repeated-measures ANOVAs revealed that the pictures were more effective in modulating emotions. Cognitive reappraisal and distraction strategies downregulated emotions.
Highlights
Emotions are a major part of our subjective experiences of the world
Scores of each pair was subjected to within subject analysis of variance to analyse the effectiveness of emotion regulation strategy
analysis of variance (ANOVA) with stimuli [picture, movie clip] x strategy as within subject factor and Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) rating for arousal and valence as dependent variable was performed for each pair of stimuli
Summary
Emotions are a major part of our subjective experiences of the world. At times, our emotions are not appropriate and require active management. The aim of the present study is to compare the effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies across emotion induction method (picture and films). Forty participants rated their emotion on Self-Assessment Manikin (SAM) ratings for each pictorial and video stimuli while following the emotion regulation instructions. The aim of the present study was to examine whether varying emotional induction stimuli (pictures and movie clips) causes changes in the effectiveness of emotional regulation. To the best of author’s knowledge, no study has attempted to establish link between stimuli inducing emotion (picture/video) and effectiveness of ER The study of this link is important as emotion induction leads to generation of varied emotional states.
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