Emotion regulation and mental health

Berking, Matthias; Wupperman, Peggilee

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“…Berking & Wupperman, 2012;Gross & John, 2003;Gross & Muñoz, 1995). A recent meta-analysis suggested that rumination may have the strongest associations with psychopathology compared to other ER strategies (e.g.…”

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Rumination is independently associated with poor psychological health: Comparing emotion regulation strategies

Zawadzki

2015

Psychology & Health

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Objective: Emotion regulation (ER) strategies are related to psychological health, with most work examining reappraisal and suppression. Yet, emerging findings suggest that rumination may have stronger relationships with psychological health, namely depression, than other ER strategies. This paper replicated and extended this work by testing whether rumination was independently associated with a range of poor psychological health risk indicators and outcomes. In addition, it explored whether the reason why rumination is so deleterious to health is because it underlies the stress-health relationship. Design: Participants (n = 218) completed measures online. Main outcome measures: Surveys assessed ER strategies (reappraisal, suppression, proactive coping, emotion support seeking, and rumination), health risk indicators (hostility, optimism, self-esteem), health outcomes (depression, poor sleep quality, anxiety) and perceived chronic stress. Results: Multivariate regression analyses revealed rumination as the only ER strategy with a consistent independent effect on all the health risk indicators and outcomes. Bootstrapping analyses revealed indirect effects of perceived chronic stress on all the health variables via rumination. Conclusion: Rumination had a deleterious relationship with psychological health, perhaps because rumination underlies the relationship between stress and psychological health. Results have implications for interventions, particularly emphasizing the need to target ruminative thinking after stressful experiences.

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Rumination is independently associated with poor psychological health: Comparing emotion regulation strategies

Zawadzki

2015

Psychology & Health

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“…At work, people often must cope with difficult situations and solve problems while also addressing the challenging emotions that arise in those situations. Because deficits in the ability to adaptively cope with difficult emotions are related to various mental health problems (64), the use of effective emotion-regulation techniques (65) in low-threshold internet-based stressmanagement training appears promising (66,67).…”

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Efficacy of an internet-based problem-solving training for teachers: results of a randomized controlled trial

Ebert¹,

Lehr²,

Boß³

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Objective The primary purpose of this randomized controlled trial (RCT) was to evaluate the efficacy of internet-based problem-solving training (iPST) for employees in the educational sector (teachers) with depressive symptoms. The results of training were compared to those of a waitlist control group (WLC).Methods One-hundred and fifty teachers with elevated depressive symptoms (Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale, CES-D ≥16) were assigned to either the iPST or WLC group. The iPST consisted of five lessons, including problem-solving and rumination techniques. Symptoms were assessed before the intervention began and in follow-up assessments after seven weeks, three months, and six months. The primary outcome was depressive symptom severity (CES-D). Secondary outcomes included general and work-specific self-efficacy, perceived stress, pathological worries, burnout symptoms, general physical and mental health, and absenteeism.Results iPST participants displayed a significantly greater reduction in depressive symptoms after the intervention (d=0.59, 95% CI 0.26-0.92), after three months (d=0.37, 95% CI 0.05-0.70) and after six months (d=0.38, 95% CI 0.05-0.70) compared to the control group. The iPST participants also displayed significantly higher improvements in secondary outcomes. However, workplace absenteeism was not significantly affected.Conclusion iPST is effective in reducing symptoms of depression among teachers. Disseminated on a large scale, iPST could contribute to reducing the burden of stress-related mental health problems among teachers. Future studies should evaluate iPST approaches for use in other working populations.

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“…More precisely, emotional reactivity and the ability to down-regulate negative emotions are needed to show empathy, a key ingredient for therapy success (Elliott et al, 2011;Markowitz & Milrod, 2011;Rogers, 1957). Besides facilitating empathy, effective emotion regulation helps psychotherapists to model effective emotion regulation to patients (Paivio, 2013) and to safeguard their own well-being and mental health (Berking & Wupperman, 2012), which are prerequisites for effective functioning at work (Wright & Cropanzano, 2000). The latter aspect is critical, as PSYCHOTHERAPISTS AND NEGATIVE EMOTIONS 11 psychotherapists are at risk of mental health problems and vicarious traumatization (Pearlman & Mac Ian, 1995), which, if not avoided, might interfere with their therapeutic effectiveness (Sherman, 1996).…”

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“…Besides facilitating empathy, effective emotion regulation has additional benefits for psychotherapists. Given that dysfunctional emotion regulation is thought to underlie the etiology of many mental health problems (Berking & Wupperman, 2012), a psychotherapist's role often involves modeling more effective emotion regulation for their patients (Paivio, 2013). Furthermore, ineffective emotion regulation makes the psychotherapist vulnerable to vicarious traumatization, which can result from repeated exposure to narratives about negative life events, such as abuse and victimization (Pearlman & Mac Ian, 1995).…”

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Practicing psychotherapists are more skilled at downregulating negative emotions than other professionals.

Pletzer¹,

Sánchez²,

Scheibe³

2015

Psychotherapy

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(2015) Practicing psychotherapists are more skilled at downregulating negative emotions than other professionals. Psychotherapy, 52 (3). pp. 346-350.Downloaded from: http://insight.cumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/2051/ Usage of any items from the University of Cumbria's institutional repository 'Insight' must conform to the following fair usage guidelines.Any item and its associated metadata held in the University of Cumbria's institutional repository Insight (unless stated otherwise on the metadata record) may be copied, displayed or performed, and stored in line with the JISC fair dealing guidelines (available here) for educational and not-for-profit activities provided that• the authors, title and full bibliographic details of the item are cited clearly when any part of the work is referred to verbally or in the written form Lay people and psychotherapists alike tend to assume that psychotherapists are more effective than the average population in regulating negative emotions. Being receptive to patients' distress and being able to down-regulate negative emotions are important skills for psychotherapists to provide effective help and sustain their own well-being. We investigated whether psychotherapists react to negative material differently, and down-regulate emotions more effectively, than individuals working in other, non-therapeutic, professions. Practicing psychotherapists (n = 21) and a control group of non-therapists (n = 18) were exposed to pictures designed to elicit negative emotions in varying intensities and were asked to rate their emotional response, first after viewing them naturally and then after choosing, and applying, one of two given regulation strategies (i.e., distraction and reappraisal). Both groups responded similarly in terms of emotional reactivity and strategy choices, but psychotherapists were more effective than non-therapists in reducing their emotional response after applying emotion regulation strategies. We suggest that psychotherapists' comparable emotional reactivity and more effective emotion regulation makes them well-prepared to provide effective help to patients and safeguards their own well-being.

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Emotion regulation and mental health

Abstract: Despite some yet to be resolved challenges, the concept of emotion regulation has a broad and significant heuristic value for research in mental health.

Cited by 646 publications

References 81 publications

Rumination is independently associated with poor psychological health: Comparing emotion regulation strategies

Rumination is independently associated with poor psychological health: Comparing emotion regulation strategies

Efficacy of an internet-based problem-solving training for teachers: results of a randomized controlled trial

Practicing psychotherapists are more skilled at downregulating negative emotions than other professionals.

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