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Title
Emotion regulation in response to daily negative and positive events in youth : the role of event intensity and psychopathology
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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 = 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.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Behaviour research and therapy. - Oxford
Publication
Oxford : 2021
ISSN
0005-7967
DOI
10.1016/J.BRAT.2021.103916
Volume/pages
144 (2021) , p. 1-14
Article Reference
103916
ISI
000678487900008
Pubmed ID
34224990
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Creation 30.08.2021
Last edited 02.10.2024
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