The impact of emotion regulation therapy on emotion differentiation in psychologically distressed caregivers of cancer patients.

ABSTRACT:

Background and objectives

Emotion differentiation is considered adaptive because differentiated emotional experiences are believed to promote access to the information that emotions carry, enabling context-appropriate emotion regulation. In the present study, secondary analyses from a recent randomized controlled trial (O'Toole et al., 2019) were conducted to investigate whether emotion differentiation can improve as a result of psychotherapy and whether improvements in emotion differentiation are associated with reduced distress.

Design and methods

A total of 81 distressed caregivers of cancer patients were randomized to Emotion Regulation Therapy (ERT), an intervention aimed at improving emotion differentiation and facilitating healthy emotion regulation, or a waitlist con

SUBMITTER: Mikkelsen MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8364870 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature