Reappraising Reappraisal

Uusberg, Andero; Taxer, Jamie L.; Yih, Jennifer; Uusberg, Helen; Gross, James J.

doi:10.1177/1754073919862617

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“…Cognitive strategies seek to alter affect generation at the appraisal stage, by modifying how the situation is viewed in light of goals, values, and other motivational concerns. For instance, depressed mood could be fought off by considering how things are not as bad as they initially seemed.…”

Section: Affect Regulationmentioning

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Mental illness and well‐being: an affect regulation perspective

2019

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Mental health crucially depends upon affective states such as emotions, stress responses, impulses and moods. These states shape how we think, feel and behave. Often, they support adaptive functioning. At other times, however, they can become detrimental to mental health via maladaptive affect generation processes and/or maladaptive affect regulation processes. Here, we present an integrative framework for considering the role of affect generation and regulation in mental illness and well-being. Our model views affect generation as an iterative cycle of attending to, appraising and responding to situations. It views affect regulation as an iterative series of decisions aimed at altering affect generation. Affect regulation decisions include identifying what, if anything, should be changed about affect, selecting where to intervene in the affect generation cycle, choosing how to implement this intervention, and monitoring the regulation attempt to decide whether to maintain, switch or stop it. Difficulties with these decisions, often arising from biased inputs to them, can contribute to manifestations of mental illness such as clinical symptoms, syndromes and disorders. The model has a number of implications for clinical assessment and treatment. Specifically, it offers a common set of concepts for characterizing different affective states; it highlights interactions between affect generation and affect regulation; it identifies assessment and treatment targets among the component processes of affect regulation; and it is applicable to prevention and treatment of mental illness as well as to promotion and restoration of psychological well-being.

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Mental illness and well‐being: an affect regulation perspective

2019

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“…One particularly common regulation strategy-even when facing health threats (Moskowitz et al, 1996)-is cognitive reappraisal (Ford et al, 2017). Because reappraisal involves changing one's perspective on the nature of the threat one is facing (Uusberg et al, 2019), it can powerfully shape people's emotional experiences. For example, reappraisal can be used to…”

Section: The Role Of Fear In Responding To Health Threatsmentioning

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Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions

Smith

Willroth²,

Gatchpazian

et al. 2021

Psychol Sci

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How people respond to health threats can influence their own health and, when people are facing communal risks, even their community’s health. We propose that people commonly respond to health threats by managing their emotions with cognitive strategies such as reappraisal, which can reduce fear and protect mental health. However, because fear can also motivate health behaviors, reducing fear may also jeopardize health behaviors. In two diverse U.S. samples ( N = 1,241) tracked across 3 months, sequential and cross-lagged panel mediation models indicated that reappraisal predicted lower fear about an ongoing health threat (COVID-19) and, in turn, better mental health but fewer recommended physical health behaviors. This trade-off was not inevitable, however: The use of reappraisal to increase socially oriented positive emotions predicted better mental health without jeopardizing physical health behaviors. Examining the costs and benefits of how people cope with health threats is essential for promoting better health outcomes for individuals and communities.

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“…It overlaps conceptually to some extent with positive reinterpretation (Carver et al, 1989) in the coping literature. Specific methods of reappraisal are recontrual (i.e., changing the situational construal) and repurposing (i.e., changing the goal set) (Uusberg et al, 2019). An example of reappraisal is when remote learners try to see the technical difficulties encountered on a distance learning platform as an opportunity to learn new technologies.…”

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Exploring Emotion Regulation and Perceived Control as Antecedents of Anxiety and Its Consequences During Covid-19 Full Remote Learning

Zhao

et al. 2021

Front. Psychol.

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Maintaining the emotional well-being of learners during a pandemic is important. This study explored the effects of two emotion regulation strategies (cognitive reappraisal, expressive suppression) and perceived control on full remote learners' anxiety during Covid-19, and their relationship to perceived learning. Structural equation modeling was used to analyze 239 questionnaires completed by Chinese graduate students taking a course remotely from home for 13 weeks. This study showed that reappraisal was positively related to perceived control, whereas suppression was negatively related to perceived control. Reappraisers perceived more learning, whereas suppressors experienced more anxiety. Anxiety was significantly and negatively related to perceived learning. Mediation analyses showed the existence of different patterns of mediation in the pathways from the two types of emotion regulation to perceived learning. These findings are discussed in relation to relevant studies conducted during non-pandemic periods and Covid-19, and based on the results we highlight the need for interventions aimed at developing adaptive emotion regulation strategies and reducing anxiety in emergency remote learning.

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Reappraising Reappraisal

Cited by 86 publications

References 120 publications

Mental illness and well‐being: an affect regulation perspective

Mental illness and well‐being: an affect regulation perspective

Coping With Health Threats: The Costs and Benefits of Managing Emotions

Exploring Emotion Regulation and Perceived Control as Antecedents of Anxiety and Its Consequences During Covid-19 Full Remote Learning

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