The association between aspects of expressive suppression emotion regulation strategy and rumination traits: a network analysis approach.

ABSTRACT: Expressive suppression is an abnormal emotion regulation strategy, and its relationship with rumination traits is unclear. In this study with 395 participants in China (33.9% female, Mean age = 21.22, SD = 2.11), we estimated the association between expressive suppression and rumination traits, using the Rumination Response Scale (RRS) and the Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ) respectively. Considering there may be complex correlations between different behavioral symptoms of expressive suppression ("Keeping emotions to myself", "Inhibiting positive emotion responses", "Controlling emotions by not expressing them", "Inhibiting negative emotion responses") and different subtypes of rumination traits, this study employed a symptom-based network analysis method to uncover the differentia

SUBMITTER: Zou M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11438175 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature