Examining the associations between interpersonal emotion regulation and psychosocial adjustment in emerging adulthood

Chan, Samantha; Rawana, Jennine S.

doi:10.1007/s10608-020-10185-2

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“…Our findings suggest that the IER strategy of increasing positive emotions is associated with greater relationship satisfaction and well-being, similar to the study of Chan and Rawana (2021). The positive yet small correlation between the soothing dimension of IER and COVID-19 stress is consistent with the findings of Gökdağ et al, (2019).…”

Section: Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Relationship Quality and We...supporting

confidence: 92%

“…Previous studies have shown that emotion regulation can buffer the impact of stress on relationship satisfaction (e.g., Moriya & Takahashi, 2013 ). In addition, different IER strategies—specifically, enhancing positive affect and perspective-taking—were found to be related to higher relationship quality and greater well-being (Chan & Rawana, 2021 ). Despite the absence of empirical evidence, it is plausible that IER strategies may moderate the relationships between COVID-19 related stress and both relationship satisfaction and well-being indices.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, there are very few studies on the relationship between IER strategies and relationship quality and well-being. Chan and Rawana ( 2021 ) found that greater use of enhancing positive affect and perspective-taking IER strategies are associated with greater well-being and relationship quality. However, using a soothing strategy is found to be associated with lower well-being.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Relationship Satisfaction and Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the Associations with Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies

Temiz

Elsharnouby

2022

Cogn Ther Res

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Background The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our interpersonal relationships drastically. However, few research studies have examined pandemic-induced stress and its impact on relationship quality. The current research aimed to examine COVID-19 related stress and anxiety in relation to relationship satisfaction, well-being (i.e., positive affect and life satisfaction), and interpersonal emotion regulation strategies (i.e., perspective-taking, enhancing positive affect, social modeling, and soothing), to understand the effects of pandemic-induced stress on both an individual and a relational well-being. The moderating effect of interpersonal emotion regulation strategies toward COVID-19 related stress was also examined. Methods The sample consisted of 877 married Turkish adults ( N female = 613, M age = 35.00; N male = 264, M age = 39.21). Data were analyzed with structural equation modeling, and moderation effects were tested. Results As hypothesized, structural equation modeling revealed that greater COVID-19 related stress was associated with lower well-being, and that this relationship was mediated by relationship satisfaction. Findings indicated that IER strategy of increasing positive emotions was associated with greater relationship satisfaction and well-being. Unexpectedly, interpersonal emotion regulation strategies moderated neither the relationship between COVID-19 related stress and relationship satisfaction nor the relationship between COVID-19 stress and well-being. Conclusions Our findings support the vulnerability-stress-adaptation framework and draw attention to the importance of examining the effects of COVID-19 stress and relationship satisfaction.

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Section: Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Relationship Quality and We...supporting

confidence: 92%

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Relationship Satisfaction and Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the Associations with Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies

Temiz

Elsharnouby

2022

Cogn Ther Res

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“…Importantly, frequently using IER to regulate one's emotions has been linked with various mental health outcomes (e.g., Chan & Rawana, 2021;Dixon-Gordon et al, 2018;Hofmann, 2014;Marroquín, 2011). Most of the available studies indicate that higher use of IER to increase one's positive emotions has beneficial mental health outcomes.…”

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confidence: 99%

Preprint: Interpersonal emotion regulation in young adults with low and high psychosis proneness: A diary study

Riehle¹,

Brauer²,

Lincoln³

et al. 2023

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Emotion regulation is a complex process that often involves the presence of others, also known as interpersonal emotion regulation (IER). Nevertheless, studies on emotion regulation difficulties in psychosis and psychosis risk states have neglected IER. This study investigated whether young adults with elevated psychosis proneness engage in IER less frequently and find it less helpful than those with low psychosis proneness. Psychosis-prone participants with attenuated negative (PP-NES, n=37) and positive symptoms (PP-POS, n=20) and low psychosis-prone participants (control group, CG, n=52) were recruited based on a priori defined cut-offs for the Community Assessment of Psychic Experiences. Participants provided daily diaries over one week, reporting negative symptoms, paranoia, positive and negative affect, and the frequency and efficacy of IER strategies to upregulate positive and downregulate negative emotions. Multilevel models showed that PP-NES reported using IER to upregulate positive emotions less frequently and found it less effective for both positive and negative emotions compared to CG. PP-POS did not differ from CG on any IER measure. Additionally, negative symptoms were negatively associated with all IER measures on the same day, and paranoia was associated with more frequent use of IER to downregulate negative emotions. These findings suggest deficits in everyday interpersonal emotion regulation in psychosis-prone young adults with negative symptoms. Moreover, the results indicate that young adults use interpersonal emotion regulation more when in paranoid states. Future research should investigate the consequences of these aberrations regarding social inclusion and short- and long-term symptom trajectories.

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“…Many papers deal with its theoretical implications and connections with other constructs, be it a collection of regulation strategies (Niven et al, 2009), an integration with the concept of empathy (Zaki, 2020), or the role of maternal coregulation for the development of socio-emotional competences (Silkenbeumer et al, 2016). Others with a more empirical approach rely on recall and self-assessment about social emotion regulation skills, strategies and goals (Williams White et al, 2007;Coats et al, 2008;Hofmann et al, 2016;Liddell and Williams 2019;Chan and Rawana 2021). There are notable experimental paradigms used in related fields, such as the manipulation of physical closeness by having mother-daughter dyads either hold hands or not, and examining its impact on socalled 'load sharing', the distribution of the load of emotional distress among relationship partners (Lougheed et al, 2016), and also non-experimental studies like the exploratory observation of co-regulation tactics employed by mothers and their children with autism (Gulsrud et al, 2010).…”

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Socially Supported by an Embodied Agent: The Development of a Virtual-Reality Paradigm to Study Social Emotion Regulation

Stallmann

Dukes

Tran

et al. 2022

Front. Virtual Real.

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Social emotion regulation, which can be understood as the intentional efforts by one person to regulate emotions of another person, is something we encounter and benefit from every day, and becomes especially important when a person is unable to handle an emotion or an emotional event by themselves. A paradigm that examines whether someone can perceive and benefit from regulatory efforts by another person, represented here by a virtual agent, would be highly relevant for experimental studies investigating social emotion regulation, as well as for interventions in the clinical and sub-clinical context. Virtual reality (VR) provides perhaps the ideal opportunity to test social interactions and difficulties with them, as it counters typical methodological problems of behavioral experiments, such as the trade-off between ecological validity and experimental control, as well as the difficulty of replicating social situations. The goal of the present methods paper is twofold: to provide a detailed description of the development of a novel paradigm consisting of two scenarios in VR designed to test the efficacy of social emotion regulation, and to present the anticipated results for the target populations of typically developing and autistic youth. Participants are presented with a virtual school environment and take part in two activities with a class of students and a teacher, all of whom are virtual agents. In both scenarios, participants experience a potentially stressful situation and are subsequently offered emotional support by a friendly student. Throughout the experiment, self-reports in the form of virtual smiley scales and psychophysiological measurements are collected as markers of the participants’ emotional states. Pilot results will be discussed in line with anticipated outcomes, to indicate that the experiment will be able to show the efficacy of social support by a virtual agent and provide insight into social emotion regulation for different populations. The school environment and the character of the friendly student also have the potential to be adapted for follow-up experiments on additional aspects of social emotion regulation for a variety of contexts.

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Examining the associations between interpersonal emotion regulation and psychosocial adjustment in emerging adulthood

Cited by 23 publications

References 61 publications

Relationship Satisfaction and Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the Associations with Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies

Relationship Satisfaction and Well-being During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Examining the Associations with Interpersonal Emotion Regulation Strategies

Preprint: Interpersonal emotion regulation in young adults with low and high psychosis proneness: A diary study

Socially Supported by an Embodied Agent: The Development of a Virtual-Reality Paradigm to Study Social Emotion Regulation

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