Is Negative Emotion Differentiation Associated With Emotion Regulation Choice? Investigations at the Person and Day Level.

ABSTRACT: Negative emotion differentiation (ED) has been suggested to be important for adaptive emotion regulation (ER). However, knowledge concerning how ED may impact specific ER strategy choice remains surprisingly sparse. We therefore investigated (1) if person-level negative ED was associated with habitual use of individual ER strategies, (2) how person-level negative ED was associated with daily use of individual ER strategies, and finally (3) how within-person daily fluctuations in negative ED were associated with daily use of individual ER strategies. During a 10-day experience sampling study, 90 healthy participants rated their momentary emotions and their ER efforts in response to those emotions. ER strategies included four putatively adaptive strategies (reflection, distancing, non-reacti

SUBMITTER: O'Toole MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8298904 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature