Influence Of Emotion Regulation Research Articles

The Influence of Emotional Regulation on Internet Addiction towards Students Who Use Online Gambling Sites and Applications

This study aims to examine the influence of emotion regulation on internet addiction in online gambling site and application users. This study uses a quantitative method with a correlational quantitative design. The population in this study are university students who use online gambling in Indonesia. The sampling technique in this study uses purposive sampling technique with 105 respondents. The instruments in this study use the Internet Addiction Test (IAT) scale (Young, 2017) which has been modified by the researcher to suit online gambling use. Participants' emotional regulation skills were measured using the Difficulties Emotion Regulation (DERS) measurement tool first developed by Gratz and Roemer (2004) which has been adapted into Indonesian by Nina (2014). Data was collected by distributing online and offline surveys using Google Forms and processed using Spearman correlation with the help of spss 25 for windows. The results of the data analysis show a significance of 0.000 <0.05. Emotion regulation has a significant negative relationship with internet addiction so that the higher the emotional regulation score obtained by the subject, the higher the possibility of experiencing internet addiction. This shows that Ha is accepted and Ho is rejected or can also be interpreted that there is an influence of emotion regulation on internet addiction.

Pengaruh Regulasi Emosi Terhadap Subjective Well-Being pada Guru SLB

This study aims to determine whether there is or there is no emotional regulation that affects the subjective well-being of Special School teachers in Surabaya. The population and sample in this study are all SLB teachers who meet the criteria of six Special schools in Surabaya. The Design research used in this research is non-experimental quantitative analysis. The method used in this study is a simple linear regression test to see whether emotional regulation affects subjective well-being or not. The total sample collected in this research is using purposive sampling. The instruments of emotional regulation and subjective well-being use questionnaires with a Likert scale approach. The results of the study showed a significance value = 0.001 (p<000.5) which means that there is an influence of emotional regulation on subjective well-being on SLB teachers in Surabaya with an r square value of 0.171 which means that emotional regulation has a positive influence on subjective well-being of 17.1%.

A comparative analysis of adolescents' emotions and emotion regulation strategies when witnessing different cyberbullying scenarios

The search for greater popularity and acceptance by peers increases the use of social networks that may cause cyberbullying. The high number of adolescents who observe this phenomenon may help reduce the negative impact on the victims. Emotion regulation is an important predictor of adolescents' psychological adjustment and social competence to adopt a prosocial behavior. Bystanders of these incidents may misinterpret what they see, due to specific cyberbullying characteristics which may influence emotion regulation negatively. Studies about emotions and emotion regulations in bystanders are scarce. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the emotional reactions and emotional regulation strategies of bystanders while witnessing various cyberbullying scenarios (posting photographs, direct threats, offences to integrity, threats to share personal information), as well as to focus on different behavior, victim characteristics, aggressor traits, and spectator reactions. A convenience sample of 143 adolescents (from 12 to 17 years old) was used. Results showed that worry and sadness were the most expressed emotions in all scenarios (mainly for girls) and posting a photograph was considered more concerning for girls and boys both. To regulate emotions, participants used distraction (especially seven graders) and rumination strategies. Nonetheless, when posting a photo without permission, they all adopted prosocial behavior (boys and girls) because they considered it more serious. Seventh graders adopted less prosocial behavior than eighth graders. In short, girls were more prosocial than boys. Boys may have more difficulty in regulating emotions properly and it may contribute to not intervening. Also, younger adolescents may have experienced less emotional maturity. Therefore, developing programs based on socio-emotional skills, which increase awareness of the seriousness of cyberbullying, can teach youth how to deal with emotions in order to regulate them effectively, thus increasing emotional maturity.

How can I help?: Specific strategies used in interpersonal emotion regulation in a relationship context.

Most emotion regulation research investigates how individuals manage their own emotions but in everyday life, emotion regulation often takes place in an interpersonal context-that is, through the intervention of others, especially close relationship partners. In this manuscript, we describe a 2-week daily diary study of 197 couples, in which we examined the nature and effectiveness of partners' attempts at interpersonal emotion regulation. Organized around the extended process model of emotion regulation (Gross, 2015), we examined the frequency and perceived effectiveness of six strategies for regulating negative emotions and two strategies for regulating positive emotions, as well as the impact of emotional regulation effectiveness on relationship satisfaction. Results indicated that situation modification was the most common approach to regulating negative emotions, whereas savoring was most common for positive emotions. Most strategies were perceived to be effective by both regulators and their targets, with the exception of suppression for negative emotion, for which evidence was mixed, and dampening for positive emotion, which was not viewed as effective. The influence of emotion regulation on relationship satisfaction depended on one's perspective: Regulators felt that their effective efforts benefitted their relationships, but even when targets experienced emotion regulation as effective, they indicated no improvements in relationship satisfaction, perhaps because the emotion-eliciting events were still salient to them. Broadly speaking, this research highlights the value of examining emotion regulation in an interpersonal context, and in the context of partners' ordinary, everyday social interaction. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

The Mediating Roles of Mindfulness in Marriage and Mindfulness in Parenting in the Relationship Between Parents’ Dispositional Mindfulness and Emotion Regulation of Their Children

The fact that primary school is a pre-adolescent period makes it important in terms of regulating emotions. The beginning signals of adolescence occur during this period. It is clear that this challenging process of emotion regulation is linked to age and development, along with parental characteristics and the interactions of the child with the parent. It is believed that researching the variables that influence emotion regulation can help individuals maintain healthy social interactions throughout their journey from childhood to adulthood. In this context, parents’ mindfulness levels, which include both intrapersonal and interpersonal processes, play a crucial role in helping their children regulate their emotions. The current study aims to ascertain the serial mediating role of mindfulness in marriage and mindfulness in parenting in the relationship between parents’ dispositional mindfulness and the emotion regulation of their children aged 6–10. A total of 333 parents, all of whom were married and had children ranging from 6 to 10 years old, participated in the study. “Emotion Regulation Checklist”, “Mindfulness in Marriage Scale”, “Mindful Attention Awareness Scale” and “Mindfulness in Parenting Questionnaire” were used in the study. To determine the mediating role, the bootstrap method was used via structural equation modeling (SEM) to ascertain the mediating role. The SEM and bootstrap method revealed that there was a serial mediation effect between parents’ dispositional mindfulness and emotion regulation of their children. This effect was attributed to mindfulness in marriage and mindfulness in parenting. Given that the primary school years are a critical developmental stage in improving emotion regulation skills, family-based interventions supporting parents’ mindfulness in three important areas (dispositional, marital, and parental) may help to improve the children’s capacity to regulate their emotions.

Longitudinal associations among adult attachment orientations, emotion regulation tendencies, and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms in young adults

Adult attachment orientations can influence emotion regulation. Such influence on the tendency to employ two strategies, cognitive reappraisal (which aims to modify emotional experiences) and expressive suppression (which inhibits emotional expression) and later symptoms is understudied. This longitudinal study evaluated indirect associations between adult attachment orientations—with a focus on the dimension of security—and transdiagnostic anxiety and depression symptoms (General Distress; GD) through reappraisal and suppression. Correlational analyses examined cross-sectional associations among constructs across four timepoints. A cross-lagged panel model was fit to examine prospective hypotheses using 30-month longitudinal data from young adults ( N = 270 at baseline). Correlational evidence provided support for expected cross-sectional associations. In prospective analyses, there was a significant unique effect of attachment-related avoidance on expressive suppression such that higher attachment-related avoidance predicted higher use of subsequent expressive suppression. There were significant unique effects of emotion regulation on symptoms such that higher reappraisal predicted lower subsequent GD and higher suppression predicted higher subsequent GD. There was no evidence for significant direct or indirect effects of attachment orientations on GD. Results suggest that adult attachment orientation may inform how one expresses emotions in the future, and how one regulates emotions may inform subsequent shared symptoms of depression and anxiety. There was no evidence that attachment orientations informed future transdiagnostic symptoms of depression and anxiety.

Factors that influence feeding practices among parents in Puncak Alam, Selangor

Many factors influence feeding practices, such as socioeconomic status, cultural beliefs, and educational background. This study aimed to identify the factors that influence parents' eating habits in Puncak Alam, Selangor. A comprehensive feeding practices questionnaire (CFPQ) was used for data collection. A total of 201 participants responded to the questionnaire. Working mothers and non-working mothers were found to significantly influence emotion regulation and restriction for weight control feeding practices. By understanding the factors involved, efforts can be made to create a positive and sustainable nutrition environment for children in Puncak Alam, Selangor.

Insights on mother’s subjective well-being: The influence of emotion regulation, mindfulness, and gratitude

Adaptation theory explains that mothers’ subjective well-being (SWB) is determined by their abilities to adapt to challenging life events using coping mechanisms. The literature highlights three latent coping mechanism factors: emotional regulation, mindfulness, and gratitude. This study aims to build a model of mothers’ SWB based on these factors. The sample comprised 302 young mothers (20-25 years old) selected using convenience sampling. Data were solicited from Likert scales that measured emotion regulation, mindfulness, gratitude, and SWB and analyzed using structural equation modeling. The results show that the SWB model had adequate goodness of fit, with a chi-square of 153.553 (p .05), GFI of .934, AGFI of .899, CFI of .929, TLI of .906, and RMSEA of .076. The model shows that emotion regulation and mindfulness, mediated by gratitude, influenced SWB, with gratitude as a strong predictor of SWB. As an implication in counseling, gratitude interventions should be applied in practice.

Choosing an emotion regulation strategy - The importance of emotional category

Recent studies have focused on stimuli characteristics that influence emotion regulation choice. A consistent finding concerns the relation between emotional intensity and the choice between reappraisal and distraction. Moreover, reappraisal affordances were found to influence emotion regulation choice. However, none of the studies assessed the impact of discrete emotions. The current study constitutes a preliminary investigation of the influence of specific emotions evoked by a stimulus, above and beyond emotional intensity and reappraisal affordances. We used the emotion regulation choice task designed by Sheppes et al., (2011) with two changes: (1) we used pictures from the Categorized Affective Pictures Database (CAP-D; Moyal et al., 2018); (2) we had three blocks in the task. We replicated the results regarding the influence of emotional intensity. Reappraisal affordances had no influence on emotion regulation choice. Importantly, we found that distinct emotions result in differential proportions of reappraisal choice, even when controlling for emotional intensity. Specifically, when the emotion evoked by stimuli was fear or sadness, participants preferred reappraisal in low intensity and distraction in high intensity conditions. When the emotion evoked was disgust, participants chose to use more distraction regardless of emotional intensity. We had a small number of pictures. To overcome this, we used three repeating blocks. We also had a relatively small sample with only a few males. Hence, these preliminary findings should be interpreted with caution. Results might suggest that different emotions are associated with different motivation to use reappraisal, regardless of other stimuli characteristics.

The interaction of emotion regulation and sleep quality: does social media usage duration play a role?

The bidirectional association of emotion regulation with sleep quality has received increased attention in recent years. In this research, we investigated the correlation between the habitual use of different emotion regulation strategies (i.e., Expressive Suppression and Cognitive Reappraisal) and different components of sleep quality. Considering that previous research revealed that using social media could influence emotion regulation and sleep quality in different ways, we controlled for the effect of social media usage duration on the interplay of emotion regulation strategies and sleep quality components. Our results showed that the habitual use of Cognitive Reappraisal was associated with improved daytime functioning; while, the tendency to use Expressive Suppression in various situations was associated with shorter sleep duration. Our findings supported the view that the habitual use of Cognitive Reappraisal and Expressive Suppression have different well-being consequences. We also observed that using any of the strategies was negatively correlated with more frequent use of sleeping medications. Additionally, we did not observe any correlation between social media usage duration and other variables. We proposed that understanding the role of social media usage on the interplay between sleep quality and emotion regulation requires a comprehensive evaluation of individual differences in using social media as well as a careful analysis of the social media platforms’ characteristics.

Beliefs About the Uncontrollability and Usefulness of Emotion in the Schizophrenia-Spectrum: Links to Emotion Regulation and Negative Symptoms.

Beliefs about the usefulness and controllability of emotions are associated with emotion regulation and psychological distress in the general population. Although individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum disorders evidence emotion regulation abnormalities, it is unclear whether emotional beliefs contribute to these difficulties and their associated poor clinical outcomes. Participants included 72 individuals with schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses (outpatients with schizophrenia n = 38; youth at clinical high-risk for psychosis, n = 34) and healthy controls (CN: n = 61) who completed the Emotional Beliefs Questionnaire, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, and measures of clinical symptom severity. Those with schizophrenia-spectrum diagnoses reported believing that emotions were less controllable than CN; however, groups did not differ regarding beliefs about the usefulness of emotion. Greater beliefs of the uncontrollability of emotion were associated with greater use of suppression, less use of reappraisal, and increased negative symptoms. Emotion regulation partially mediated the association between emotional beliefs and negative symptoms. Individuals in the schizophrenia-spectrum display superordinate beliefs that emotions are uncontrollable. These beliefs may influence emotion regulation strategy selection and success, which contributes to negative symptoms. Findings suggest that beliefs of emotional uncontrollability reflect a novel process related to both emotion regulation and negative symptoms that could be targeted in psychosocial treatments. The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10608-023-10357-w.

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Poor Sleep Quality in Older Adults: The Influence of Emotion Regulation.

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with sleep impairment across the life span, but little is known about modifiable factors that may ameliorate this relationship, such as adaptive emotion regulation (ER) skills. Data were obtained from an online questionnaire completed by a community sample of older adults (N=278). The questionnaire included the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, an Adverse Childhood Experiences questionnaire, the Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (CERQ), and measures of health conditions, and other sample demographics. Moderation analyses were used to examine the interaction between ACEs and 5 adaptive ER skills of CERQ on sleep quality in older adults, while accounting for the effects of age, sex, income, body mass index, and health. ACEs were significantly associated with worse sleep quality in older adults, and this effect was moderated by positive reappraisal and refocusing on planning (all ps < .05). For individuals reporting greater use of these ER skills, ACEs had no effect on sleep quality, whereas for individuals reporting less frequent use of these ER skills, ACEs were associated with substantially worse sleep quality. This relationship remained significant after accounting for age, sex, income, body mass index, and health conditions in the model. The effects of ACEs on sleep quality persist into older age; however, greater use of ER skills that focus on positively reframing negative events and identifying strategies for coping protect against sleep impairment in individuals with higher ACEs.

Life Satisfaction and Motherhood: The Influence of Emotion Regulation and Psychological Flexibility

Previous research has shown that emotional regulation and psychological flexibility, two caveats of mindfulness, have a positive effect on life satisfaction and wellbeing. This study investigates the predictive ability of these variables on life satisfaction within motherhood.

The Influence of Emotion Regulation on Estimation Strategy Execution in Individuals with Trait Anxiety.

Previous studies have shown that some negative emotions hinder estimation strategy execution. However, these studies rarely investigate the influence of negative emotions on the estimation strategy execution in individuals with trait anxiety. The present study examines the relationship between negative emotions and trait anxiety in individuals’ estimation strategy execution. Moreover, it looks into the influence of different emotion regulation strategies on their estimation strategy execution. In October 2010, 803 college students were evaluated using the Trait Anxiety Scale. From these participants, individuals with high and low trait anxiety were selected to complete the double-digit multiplication estimation task. The results showed that the estimation strategy’s execution speed in individuals with high trait anxiety was slower than those with low trait anxiety under negative emotions (t (113) = −2.269, p = 0.025, d = 0.427). Both expression inhibition and cognitive reappraisal could significantly improve the execution speed of the estimation strategy in low trait anxiety (p < 0.001). For individuals with high trait anxiety, cognitive reappraisal regulating negative emotions can promote the estimation strategy’s execution speed (p = 0.031). However, the use of expression inhibition has no significant effect on estimation strategy execution (p = 0.101). In summary, the present study revealed that different emotion regulation strategies moderated the arithmetic strategy execution of individuals with trait anxiety, and cognitive reappraisal had a better effect in individuals with high trait anxiety.

Emotion mindsets and depressive symptoms in adolescence: The role of emotion regulation competence.

Recent theories posit that emotion mindsets (i.e., the extent to which individuals believe emotions are malleable or fixed) play a crucial role in experiences of emotion and influence emotion regulation (ER) processes. Drawing from mindset theory, this study examined the hypothesis that fixed emotion mindsets (FEMs) would predict depressive symptoms via compromised ER competence in adolescence, a period when many first episodes of depression occur. Results supported these hypotheses across two studies assessing participants in midadolescence (ages 14-18; M age = 16.17) and late adolescence (ages 18-21; M age = 18.52). Using a comprehensive approach to assessing ER, results demonstrated that FEMs were associated with less voluntary engagement and more disengagement and emotion dysregulation. In turn, higher voluntary engagement was associated with lower depressive symptoms, whereas higher disengagement and emotion dysregulation were associated with higher depressive symptoms. These findings highlight that one understudied pathway from FEMs to depressive symptoms may be the manner in which individuals respond to their emotions, implicating emotion mindsets as one target for efforts to improve clinical outcomes during adolescence. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

The influence of emotion regulation and family involvement on diabetes distress among adults with type 2 diabetes.

Adults with diabetes frequently experience diabetes related distress, which is associated with negative health outcomes. Family members are commonly involved in patients’ diabetes self-management. However, family involvement can have helpful and/or harmful effects on patients’ diabetes outcomes. Use of interpersonal strategies to regulate negative emotions may play a role in patients’ interactions with family members and experience of diabetes distress. This study examined the influences of interpersonal emotion regulation and family and friend involvement on diabetes distress among 373 adults with type 2 diabetes. Two separate three-step sequential linear regression models were used to test the main and interactive effects of harmful and helpful family involvement and interpersonal emotion regulation on diabetes distress. Greater use of interpersonal strategies to regulate negative emotions (p = .006) and greater harmful family involvement (p < .001) were significantly associated with greater diabetes distress. Interpersonal emotion regulation moderated the relationship of helpful (p = .007), but not harmful (p = .171) family involvement on diabetes distress. Specifically, greater helpful family involvement was associated with lower diabetes distress among adults with low (p = .017) but not high (p = .419) use of interpersonal strategies to regulate negative emotions. Helpful family involvement appears to be associated with lower diabetes distress, but only among patients with low levels of interpersonal emotion regulation.

Knowing your ABCs: Extending the assessment of stimulus-response (S-R) and cognitive-mediation (C-M) beliefs.

Recently, researchers have proposed four superordinate emotion beliefs that supposedly influence emotion regulation and emotion reactivity. Two of these proposed emotion beliefs are captured in the cognitive mediation beliefs questionnaire (CMBQa), namely stimulus-response (S-R) generation beliefs and cognitive mediation (C-M) change beliefs. The remaining two proposed emotion beliefs, C-M generation beliefs and S-R change beliefs, are yet to be operationalised in psychometric form. It is important to validate measurement for all four emotion beliefs in order for them to be used in research and practice. The current paper reports the development and initial validity testing of the CMBQb (studies 1–3), which concerns only C-M generation beliefs and S-R change beliefs, and then tests the four-factor structure of the combined CMBQa (S-R generation, C-M change) and CMBQb (C-M generation, S-R change): the CMBQc (study 4). Some support was found for the four-factor structure of the CMBQc, with factor analyses revealing good fit to the data with a four-factor solution. Also, scores indicating greater C-M generation and change beliefs, and lower S-R generation and change beliefs, were related to more adaptive, and less maladaptive, emotion regulation tendencies. In addition, there was some evidence that greater C-M change beliefs, and lower S-R generation and change belief, were related to better affective and emotion reactivity outcomes. Implications of the CMBQc for research and practice are discussed within the context and emotion regulation science, and cognitive behavioural psychotherapy.

Can Emotion Regulation Affect Aggressive Responses? A Study on the Ukrainian-Russian Conflict in a Non-Directly Exposed Sample.

On 24 February, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave the order to invade neighbouring Ukraine; a typical trend during the war is considering events in a one-sided way, emphasising the exclusive contribution of one opponent over the other for the outbreak of war. War may trigger the experience of emotions, such as anger, shame, and disgust. The present study reproduces previous studies on the influence of emotional regulation in support of aggressive reactions (AR) in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. A questionnaire referring to the Russian–Ukrainian conflict has been implemented and spread in the Italian territory. A multiple moderated mediation model was proposed to evaluate the effect of emotional cognitive reappraisal on the propensity for AR, including conflict-related emotions (anger, shame, disgust) as mediators and political alignment and the appraisal of one’s own emotions subscale of the brief emotional intelligence scale as moderators. The results show that cognitive reappraisal of emotions has a negative effect on AR; moreover, recognising and regulating emotions decreases anger, while taking sides with Ukraine or not siding seems to have an effect on AR depending on the emotion felt (anger or shame). The results are discussed according to the current literature on the topic, highlighting the practical implications and limits of the research.

Academic Performance of College Student Servicemembers and Veterans: The Influence of Emotion Regulation, Self-Efficacy, and PTSD Symptom Severity

Despite increases in fiscal and human resources dedicated to support college student service-members and veterans (CSSV), retention rates remain low with a little over half of this population completing a postsecondary degree. This low retention rate is often attributed to emotional and psychological difficulties associated with transitioning from the stress of military and combat-related environments to civilian life. The current study investigated potential factors related to the academic performance of 412 CSSV. Investigators examined structural models to test hypothesized relationships of independent variables consisting of emotion regulation strategies; college self-efficacy (CSE); regulatory emotional self-efficacy (RESE); and PTSD symptom severity as predictors for self-reported cumulative grade point average (GPA). Consistent with the study hypotheses, path analyses of three structural models demonstrated the influence emotion regulation strategies have on academic outcomes and PTSD symptom severity. Additional mediation models demonstrated cognitive reappraisal, college self-efficacy and regulatory emotional self-efficacy as having direct paths significantly predicting GPA and PTSD severity. Structural models did not produce significant mediation between emotion regulation strategies and GPA. However, both college self-efficacy and regulatory emotional self-efficacy partially mediated cognitive reappraisal and PTSD symptom severity. Implications and specific recommendations for promoting and maximizing the academic success of CSSV are discussed.

Relationship between autistic traits and emotion regulation using humor in the general population

Abstract This study examined which characteristics of autistic traits have a positive or negative relationship with emotional regulation using humor. Participants completed the Japanese version of the Social Responsiveness Scale 2 (SRS-2), Adult-Self and Humor Coping with Interpersonal Stress Scale (HCISS). The results showed that while the overall score of the SRS-2 was not significantly linked to emotion regulation using humor, the subscale of capacity for reciprocal social communication was negatively associated with the HCISS score. In contrast, the subscale of restricted interests and repetitive behavior was positively related to the HCISS score. This difference suggests that the two autistic traits influence emotion regulation using humor. These findings could help develop interventions to enhance adaptive emotion regulation strategies in individuals with high autistic traits.