2016
DOI: 10.1080/02699931.2016.1213704
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Successful emotion regulation requires both conviction and skill: beliefs about the controllability of emotions, reappraisal, and regulation success

Abstract: To succeed in self-regulation, people need to believe that it is possible to change behaviour and they also need to use effective means to enable such a change. We propose that this also applies to emotion regulation. In two studies, we found that people were most successful in emotion regulation, the more they believed emotions can be controlled and the more they used an effective emotion regulation strategy - namely, cognitive reappraisal. Cognitive reappraisal moderated the link between beliefs about the co… Show more

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“…Group comparisons in regard to psychosocial constructs over time suggest that higher ER-satisfaction (stable or positively changing) is associated with more favorable psychosocial outcomes 6 months post-surgery (e.g., less depressive symptomatology and increased use of controlled expression to regulate negative emotions in an adaptive way). Enhancing ER-satisfaction might therefore be a promising approach in future weight loss treatments—training patients in ER, thereby encouraging their confidence in being able to successfully control emotions and apply adaptive ER-strategies effectively [39], might contribute to improving ER-satisfaction.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Group comparisons in regard to psychosocial constructs over time suggest that higher ER-satisfaction (stable or positively changing) is associated with more favorable psychosocial outcomes 6 months post-surgery (e.g., less depressive symptomatology and increased use of controlled expression to regulate negative emotions in an adaptive way). Enhancing ER-satisfaction might therefore be a promising approach in future weight loss treatments—training patients in ER, thereby encouraging their confidence in being able to successfully control emotions and apply adaptive ER-strategies effectively [39], might contribute to improving ER-satisfaction.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Second, the present research is based on written reports of what people believe that they may do and this may not correspond to what people actually do in those situations. This procedure was chosen to maximize internal validity as similar studies did previously to study people's efficacy to regulate their own emotions in a controlled environment (e.g., Bigman et al, 2015;Gutentag et al, 2017). These procedures aim to study variables (i.e., perceived efficacy) that might be difficult to evaluate in a more naturalistic setting.…”
Section: Limitations and Future Researchmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In a study by Bigman, Mauss, Gross, and Tamir (), people who were led to believe they could be successful at changing their own emotions were actually better than those who were led to believe the opposite. In a subsequent study, people who believed emotions could be controlled (by them) were the most successful in emotion regulation (Gutentag, Halperin, Porat, Bigman, & Tamir, ). Hence, people's beliefs about emotion regulation efficacy can actually shape their emotion regulation efforts.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In this way, resources are drawn away from the ongoing task, and the performance is disrupted (Buodo, Sarlo, & Palomba, ; Schimmack, ; Kennedy et al, 2015). In our case, the choice of an orthogonal paradigm is also useful to avoid confounds due to different strategies of emotional reappraisal (Gutentag, Halperin, Porat, Bigman, & Tamir, ) and to reduce the habituation effect (Carretié, Hinojosa, & Mercado, ) while solving an externally focused task. Neutral and negative stimuli were defined through a dimensional approach to the study of emotions (Hamann, ; Russell, ), and experimental conditions were individualized to account for interindividual differences in the subjective perception of emotional stimuli (Lindquist & Barrett, ).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%