Adaptiveness of emotion regulation flexibility according to long-term implications
Background - The ability to consider the long-term implications of emotional events is integral to mental health and adaptive psychological functioning. However, it remains unclear whether flexibly synchronizing emotion regulation strategies to the long-term implications of emotional events is assoc...
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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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15 June 2025
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Journal of affective disorders
Year: 2025, Volume: 379, Pages: 1-9 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2517 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jad.2025.02.114 |
| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2025.02.114 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165032725003313 
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| Author Notes: | Luise Pruessner, Heidelberg University, Department of Psychology, Catherine N.M. Ortner, Thompson Rivers University, Department of Psychology |
| Summary: | Background - The ability to consider the long-term implications of emotional events is integral to mental health and adaptive psychological functioning. However, it remains unclear whether flexibly synchronizing emotion regulation strategies to the long-term implications of emotional events is associated with adaptive outcomes. - Methods - This ecological momentary assessment study examined how emotion regulation flexibility concerning contextual long-term implications is linked to daily emotional experiences and mental health outcomes. Ninety-eight participants provided 1705 real-time assessments of their perceived long-term implications of ongoing emotional events and reported their use of cognitive change (i.e., reappraisal, benefit-finding, perspective-taking) and attentional deployment strategies (i.e., distraction, refocusing, cognitive avoidance). The adaptiveness of adjusting these strategies based on contextual long-term implications was examined using momentary emotional experiences and measures of psychopathology and well-being as outcomes. - Results - Consistent with models of emotion regulation flexibility, participants who aligned their use of cognitive change and attentional deployment strategies with the perceived long-term significance of events reported more positive daily emotional experiences and lower levels of psychopathology. - Limitations - Future work should use experimental and longitudinal designs to establish causal pathways. - Conclusions - These findings underscore the importance of accounting for situational long-term implications when evaluating the adaptiveness of regulatory strategies, thereby adding to the growing body of evidence supporting the contextual nature of emotion regulation. |
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| Item Description: | Online verfügbar: 4. März 2025, Artikelversion: 8. März 2025 Gesehen am 05.03.2025 |
| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| ISSN: | 1573-2517 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jad.2025.02.114 |