Emotional regulation strategies in daily life: the intensity of emotions and regulation choice.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Emotion regulation is an adaptive ability affecting people's physical and mental health, quality of life and functioning. In the present study we focused on the influence of the intensity of experienced emotions on emotion regulation strategies (ERS) that are applied in everyday life.

Methods

For 7 days the participants kept an online diary where every day they described the situation which had aroused their strongest negative emotions. Next, they identified the emotions, their intensity and the type of applied strategies (acceptance vs. reappraisal vs. rumination vs. distraction vs. suppression). The study involved 88 people N = 88, which gives 538 observations.

Results

The obtained results indicate that the intensity of emotions affects the choice o

SUBMITTER: Kozubal M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10460911 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature