Assessing emotion regulation repertoires: The Regulation of Emotion Systems Survey

France, Kalee De; Hollenstein, Tom

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2017.07.018

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“…One interpretation of our results is that they suggest emotion regulation flexibility does not increase later in adulthood and therefore flexibility cannot explain the age-related improvements in emotional well-being. However, this perspective only holds if one endorses the common conception that frequently adjusting one's regulation tactics is beneficial (e.g., Bonnano et al, 2004; De France & Hollenstein, 2017). Some researchers have recently argued that flexibility is only adaptive when it is necessary (Aldao et al, 2015).…”

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Another year older, another year wiser? Emotion regulation strategy selection and flexibility across adulthood.

Eldesouky

English

2018

Psychology and Aging

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Several influential theories posit that improvements in emotion regulation contribute to enhanced emotional well-being in older adulthood. However, surprisingly little is known about whether there are age differences in emotion regulation strategy use. We addressed this question by testing whether older adults report using typically adaptive strategies more often and regulate more flexibly than relatively younger adults. In a two-part study, 136 married couples (N = 272) aged 23-85 years completed individual difference measures of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression, and then nine daily reports of a broader range of emotion regulation strategies, now including situation selection, situation modification, and distraction. Older adults reported greater habitual use of suppression, but age did not predict situation selection, situation modification, distraction, or reappraisal. In terms of emotion regulation flexibility, a similar number of strategies were reported on a daily basis regardless of the regulator's age. Unexpectedly, relatively older adults were less variable in their self-reported daily use of each strategy and middle-aged adults were the least variable in their strategy repertoire across different days. These findings counter the common notion that older adults use typically adaptive strategies more than younger adults. Instead, they suggest older adults may be more consistent in their emotion regulation patterns across situations, potentially suggestive of less flexibility. Implications for aging, emotion regulation, and well-being are discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record

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Another year older, another year wiser? Emotion regulation strategy selection and flexibility across adulthood.

Eldesouky

English

2018

Psychology and Aging

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“…As these ER strategies are two of the most well studied, with strong links to depressive symptoms in the adult literature, they are strong candidates to explore the longitudinal association between ER and depressive symptoms in adolescence. However, more research is required to examine the associations tested in the current study with additional ER strategies (e.g., distraction, rumination; De France & Hollenstein, 2017). The current study relied solely on self-report, which may allow shared variance to increase correlations among variables.…”

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Emotion regulation during adolescence: Antecedent or outcome of depressive symptomology?

Lennarz

Kindt

Hollenstein

2018

International Journal of Behavioral Development

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Consistently, moderate to strong correlations between emotion regulation and depressive symptomology are well documented. This relationship is most often conceptualized as unidirectional, in that poor emotion regulation acts as a pre-existing risk factor for depressive symptomatology. However, explicit examinations of the direction of this relationship have been limited, and support for a directional relation between emotion regulation and psychopathology has been inconsistent. Moreover, the majority of the research exploring these associations relies on adult participants and the studies that have examined emotion regulation and depression in adolescents have relied almost exclusively on cross-sectional data. As a replication and extension of work that has been done by others, the current study assessed Suppression and Reappraisal use and Depressive Symptoms in 1343 adolescents (Mean age = 12.9 years, SD = 0.85) who completed assessments of emotion regulation and depressive symptoms four times over two years. Results indicated that only Suppression but not Reappraisal was concurrently correlated with Depressive Symptoms. Moreover, a correlated slopes analysis showed that within-subject changes in use of Suppression, but not Reappraisal, were associated with within-subject changes in Depressive Symptoms over time. Finally, a cross-lag panel analysis showed that while Depressive Symptoms were predictive of future Suppression use, Suppression use did not predict later Depressive Symptoms. Therefore, while Suppression and Depressive Symptoms seem to be associated during adolescence, associations between reappraisal and depressive symptomology were not present in the current study. Moreover, despite previous evidence supporting emotion regulation as a risk factor for depression, suppression may be the outcome, rather than the antecedent, of depressive symptoms during adolescence.

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“…In the selection stage, a person now considers their available emotion regulation strategy options (e.g., Gross, ; Niven, Totterdell, & Holman, ; Parkinson & Totterdell, ) and features of the world that may affect their desired strategy choice (e.g., emotional intensity; Sheppes et al, ; cognitive resources; Gyurak, Goodkind, Kramer, Miller, & Levenson, ; P). People will vary in the extent to which they typically consider a wide range of ER strategies (Blanke et al, ; De France & Hollenstein, ; Eldesouky & English, ) or specific ER strategies (e.g., Gross & John, ; Williams, Morelli, Ong, & Zaki, ). After considering their strategy options, a person evaluates the utility of each strategy in light of his or her situation (V).…”

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Emotion regulation goals: An individual difference perspective

Eldesouky

Gross

2019

Social & Personality Psych

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Goals are widely understood to be central to the initiation, maintenance, and cessation of emotion regulation (ER). Recent studies have shown that there are profound individual differences in the types of ER goals people pursue and the extent to which they pursue them. Here, we highlight the importance of taking an individual difference approach to studying ER goals. First, we use the extended process model of ER to provide conceptual clarity on what ER goals are and describe the crucial role of goals in each stage of ER. We then identify five promising directions for future research using an individual difference approach to ER goals.

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Assessing emotion regulation repertoires: The Regulation of Emotion Systems Survey

Cited by 84 publications

References 47 publications

Another year older, another year wiser? Emotion regulation strategy selection and flexibility across adulthood.

Another year older, another year wiser? Emotion regulation strategy selection and flexibility across adulthood.

Emotion regulation during adolescence: Antecedent or outcome of depressive symptomology?

Emotion regulation goals: An individual difference perspective

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