Mapping Interpersonal Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life.

ABSTRACT: The growing literature on interpersonal emotion regulation has largely focused on the strategies people use to regulate. As such, researchers have little understanding of how often people regulate in the first place, what emotion regulation goals they have when they regulate, and how much effort they invest in regulation. To better characterize features of the regulation process, we conducted two studies using daily diary (N = 171) and experience sampling methods (N = 239), exploring interpersonal emotion regulation in the context of everyday social interactions. We found people regulated others' emotions nearly twice a day, regulated their own emotions through others around once a day, and regulated both their own and others' emotions in the same interaction roughly e

SUBMITTER: Tran A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10751271 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature