Fluid and crystallized cognitive resources differentially linked to emotion regulation success in adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Effective emotion regulation (ER) is theorized to require cognitive resources. Past work has identified inconsistent relationships between cognitive ability and ER success and has focused on implementation of instructed ER strategies. In the present study, we examine a wide range of cognitive abilities as predictors of ER success in the absence of constraints on strategy selection. An age-diverse sample of participants (N = 129, age 25-83) completed an ER task in which they viewed film clips eliciting disgust, sadness, and amusement under instructions to regulate in a prohedonic fashion. ER success was measured through self-reports of positive emotion (PA) and negative emotion (NA) following each clip. Fluid and crystallized cognitive ability were assessed with tasks from the NIH To

SUBMITTER: Growney CM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9985456 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature