When you don’t like what you feel: Experiential avoidance, mindfulness and meta-emotion in emotion regulation

Mitmansgruber, Horst; Beck, T.; Höfer, Stefan; Schüßler, Gerhard

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2008.11.013

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“…Although we did not make any predictions in regard to the role of personal expectancies, our findings are consistent with previous work, suggesting that personal expectancies may guide and direct desired emotional experiences (Eid & Diener, 2001;Mitmansgruber, Beck, Hofer, & Schubler, 2009). As such, personal expectations not to feel negative emotions may actually increase life satisfaction.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

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Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood.

Bastian

Kuppens

Hornsey

et al. 2012

Emotion

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Our perception of how others expect us to feel has significant implications for our emotional functioning. Across 4 studies the authors demonstrate that when people think others expect them not to feel negative emotions (i.e., sadness) they experience more negative emotion and reduced well-being. The authors show that perceived social expectancies predict these differences in emotion and well-being both more consistently than-and independently of-personal expectancies and that they do so by promoting negative self-evaluation when experiencing negative emotion. We find evidence for these effects within Australia (Studies 1 and 2) as well as Japan (Study 2), although the effects of social expectancies are especially evident in the former (Studies 1 and 2). We also find experimental evidence for the causal role of social expectancies in negative emotional responses to negative emotional events (Studies 3 and 4). In short, when people perceive that others think they should feel happy, and not sad, this leads them to feel sad more frequently and intensely.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 86%

Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood.

Bastian

Kuppens

Hornsey

et al. 2012

Emotion

167

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“…The TMMS includes three subscales which assess beliefs about the degree to which people attend to their emotions, have clarity about their moods, and can repair negative moods. Participants also rated items from the Meta-Interest factor of the Meta-Emotion Scale which assesses people's thoughts and feelings about their emotions (Mitmansgruber, Beck, Höfer, & Schüßler, 2009), and from the short form of the Need for Affect Scale (Appel, Gnambs, & Maio, 2012). To assess lay theories about the functionality of emotion, we selected items from the initial pool of the TMMS and the Meta-Interest factor of the Meta-Emotion Scale that specifically tapped the construct that emotion is helpful or a hindrance.…”

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“…Item comes from the initial item pool of the TMMS (Salovey et al, 1995). b Item comes from the Meta-Interest subscale of the Meta-Emotion Scale (Mitmansgruber et al, 2009). …”

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Data versus Spock: lay theories about whether emotion helps or hinders

Karnaze

Levine

2017

Cognition and Emotion

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“…Parenting and family context may contribute to the development of inflexible, avoidant self regulatory strategies (Gottman et al 1996;Mitmansgruber et al 2009;Morris et al 2007;Rosenthal et al 2006). Parenting behaviors that inspire guilt, fear or resentment may deprive children of the chance to practice self regulation skills in a supportive environment, and may also shift attention from the immediate issue (the child's behavior) to the child's feelings (Moilanen et al 2010).…”

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Inflexible Parents, Inflexible Kids: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study of Parenting Style and the Development of Psychological Flexibility in Adolescents

Williams

Ciarrochi

Heaven

2012

J Youth Adolescence

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Parenting behaviors have been linked to children's self regulation, but it is less clear how they relate to adolescent psychological flexibility. Psychological flexibility is a broad construct that describes an individual's ability to respond appropriately to environmental demands and internal experiences in the service of their goals. We examined the longitudinal relationships between perceived parenting style and psychological flexibility among students at five Australian schools (N= 749) over 6 years, beginning in Grade 7 (50.3% female, mean age 12.39 years). Parenting style was measured in Grades 7 and 12, and psychological flexibility from Grade 9 through 12. Psychological flexibility decreased, on average, with age. Multi-level modelling indicated that authoritarian parenting (low warmth, high control) in Grade 7 predicted later (low) psychological flexibility. Moreover, increases in authoritarian parenting and decreases in authoritative parenting (high warmth and control) were associated with adolescent psychological flexibility across the high school years. Change in parenting predicted future psychological flexibility but did not predict change over time. Structural Equation Modelling revealed that adolescent psychological flexibility in Grade 9 predicted later decreases in authoritarian and increases in authoritative parenting. We discuss the implications of these findings for understanding how parenting changes and the consequences of such change for the development of psychological flexibility.

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When you don’t like what you feel: Experiential avoidance, mindfulness and meta-emotion in emotion regulation

Cited by 116 publications

References 23 publications

Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood.

Feeling bad about being sad: The role of social expectancies in amplifying negative mood.

Data versus Spock: lay theories about whether emotion helps or hinders

Inflexible Parents, Inflexible Kids: A 6-Year Longitudinal Study of Parenting Style and the Development of Psychological Flexibility in Adolescents

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