The unconscious pursuit of emotion regulation: Implications for psychological health

Hopp, Henrik; Troy, Allison S.; Mauss, Iris B.

doi:10.1080/02699931.2010.532606

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“…Six months later, participants completed another online survey lasting approximately 60 minutes assessing the extreme valuing of happiness and BD risk. Other measures not central to the present study were obtained during both surveys (for other articles discussing this dataset, see Gruber, Kogan, Quoidbach, & Mauss, 2013; Hopp et al, 2013; Hopp, Troy, & Mauss, 2011; Kogan, Gruber, Shallcross, Ford, & Mauss, 2013; Mauss, Troy, & LeBourgeois, 2013; Troy, Shallcross, Davis, & Mauss, 2013; Troy, Shallcross, & Mauss, 2013; Shallcross, Ford, Floerke, & Mauss, 2013). …”

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Valuing happiness is associated with bipolar disorder.

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Gruber³

2015

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While people who experience happiness tend to have better psychological health, people who value happiness to an extreme tend to have worse psychological health, including more depression. We propose that the extreme valuing of happiness may be a general risk factor for mood disturbances, both depressive and manic. To test this hypothesis, we examined the relationship between the extreme valuing of happiness and risk for, diagnosis of, and illness course for Bipolar Disorder (BD). Supporting our hypothesis, the extreme valuing of happiness was associated with a measure of increased risk for developing BD (Studies 1–2), increased likelihood of past diagnosis of BD (Studies 2–3), and worse prospective illness course in BD (Study 3), even when controlling for current mood symptoms (Studies 1–3). These findings indicate that the extreme valuing of happiness is associated with and even predicts BD. Taken together with previous evidence, these findings suggest that the extreme valuing of happiness is a general risk factor for mood disturbances. More broadly, what emotions people strive to feel may play a critical role in psychological health.

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Valuing happiness is associated with bipolar disorder.

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Gruber³

2015

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“…Any emerging worries soon dissipate. This kind of emotion regulation, reappraisal—changing how you think about a situation in order to diminish your emotional response—has long been regarded as an adaptive strategy for regulating one’s emotions [1,2]. Despite being an adaptive strategy, reappraisal may have cognitive costs: that is, thinking of a neutral interpretation of an event may be effortful, and your ability to execute the strategy effectively might also depend on your prior experience with reappraisal.…”

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Cognitive Costs of Reappraisal Depend on Both Emotional Stimulus Intensity and Individual Differences in Habitual Reappraisal

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Recent models of emotion regulation suggest that the cognitive costs of reappraisal depend on stimulus intensity and habitual reappraisal. In the current experiment, we tested these hypotheses by manipulating the intensity of unpleasant and pleasant images, which participants reappraised, viewed, or suppressed their emotions to. To assess cognitive costs, we measured participants’ performance on a concurrent simple reaction time task. Participants also reported on their everyday use of reappraisal and suppression. Higher intensity stimuli were associated with greater cognitive costs of reappraisal, for unpleasant, but not pleasant pictures. Also, greater habitual reappraisal predicted lower cognitive costs of reappraisal and greater reductions in subjective feelings. Results support the role of stimulus intensity and habitual use of reappraisal in predicting the cognitive costs of reappraisal.

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“…Multiple studies have documented the profound neurobiological consequences of repeated exposure to stress on prefrontal and limbic-striatal functioning involved in the processing and regulation of emotions (Ansell et al, 2012; Davidson et al, 2002; Seo et al, 2014). There is evidence that efficient use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies may protect against the adverse consequences of stress (Hopp et al, 2011; Ochsner and Gross, 2005; Shallcross et al, 2010; van der Veek et al, 2009); however, a recent study demonstrating that acute stress provocation markedly impairs the efficacy of cognitive emotion regulation (Raio et al, 2013) suggests that emotion regulation capacity may be actively impaired during stressful experiences, which may, in turn, enhance psychiatric vulnerability.…”

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Emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between lifetime cumulative adversity and depressive symptomatology

Abravanel

Sinha

2015

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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Repeated exposure to stressful events across the lifespan, referred to as cumulative adversity, is a potent risk factor for depression. Research indicates that cumulative adversity detrimentally affects emotion regulation processes, which may represent a pathway linking cumulative adversity to vulnerability to depression. However, empirical evidence that emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between cumulative adversity and depression is limited, particularly in adult populations. We examined the direct and indirect effects of cumulative adversity on depressive symptomatology in a large community sample of adults (n = 745) who were further characterized by risk status: never-depressed (n = 638) and “at-risk” remitted mood-disordered (n = 107). All participants completed the Cumulative Adversity Inventory (CAI), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), and the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D). Bootstrapped confidence intervals were computed to estimate the indirect effect of emotion dysregulation on the relationship between cumulative adversity and depressive symptomatology and to test whether this indirect effect was moderated by risk status. Emotion dysregulation partially and significantly mediated the relationship between cumulative adversity and depressive symptomatology independent of risk status. Overall, cumulative adversity and emotion dysregulation accounted for 50% of the variance in depressive symptomatology. These findings support the hypothesis that disruption of adaptive emotion regulation processes associated with repeated exposure to stressful life events represents an intrapersonal mechanism linking the experience of adverse events to depression. Our results support the utility of interventions that simultaneously emphasize stress reduction and emotion regulation to treat and prevent depressive vulnerability and pathology.

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The unconscious pursuit of emotion regulation: Implications for psychological health

Cited by 75 publications

References 44 publications

Valuing happiness is associated with bipolar disorder.

Valuing happiness is associated with bipolar disorder.

Cognitive Costs of Reappraisal Depend on Both Emotional Stimulus Intensity and Individual Differences in Habitual Reappraisal

Emotion dysregulation mediates the relationship between lifetime cumulative adversity and depressive symptomatology

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