ArticleThe American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry2014
Relative effectiveness of reappraisal and distraction in regulating emotion in late-life depression.
Article in The American journal of geriatric psychiatry : official journal of the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 28 papers.
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- Depressive symptoms and emotion regulation processes: Strategy selection and effectiveness.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2026Article
- Trait depression and emotional experiences in Chinese junior high school students: the chain mediating role of self-compassion and cognitive reappraisal.BMC psychology · 2026Article
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- Successful mood repair in the laboratory predicts successful mood repair in daily life for typical but not for depression-prone young adults.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Emotion regulation success in older adults with and without mild cognitive impairment.Psychology and aging · 2025Article
- Gender differences in the associations of recreational walking with indoor and outdoor falls among older adults-the Healthy Aging and Neighborhood Study (HANS).AIMS public health · 2025Article
- A Systematic Review and Narrative Synthesis of Cognitive Training in the Treatment of Mental Illness and Substance Use Disorder.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Review
- Depression and emotion regulation strategy use moderate age-related attentional positivity bias.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Review of Emotion Regulation in Late Life Mood Disorders.Journal of psychiatry and brain science · 2024Article
- Emotion regulation of social pain: double dissociation of lateral prefrontal cortices supporting reappraisal and distraction.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- The relations between real-time use of emotion regulation strategies and anxiety and depression symptoms.Journal of clinical psychology · 2023Article
- Facial Emotion Recognition in Sleep Deprivation: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.International review of social psychology · 2023Article
- Understanding the benefits of extrinsic emotion regulation in depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- Neural correlations between cognitive deficits and emotion regulation strategies: understanding emotion dysregulation in depression from the perspective of cognitive control and cognitive biases.Psychoradiology · 2022Review
- No travel worsens depression: reciprocal relationship between travel and depression among older adults.Annals of general psychiatry · 2022Article
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- Exploring Language Learning as a Potential Tool against Cognitive Impairment in Late-Life Depression: Two Meta-Analyses and Suggestions for Future Research.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020Review
- Depression: A cognitive perspective.Clinical psychology review · 2019Review
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objectivesThe present study compares the effectiveness of two strategies, reappraisal and distraction, in reducing negative affect in older adults induced by focusing on personally relevant negative events and stressors.
participants30 adults with major depressive disorger (MDD) and 40 never-depressed (ND) comparison participants ages 60 years and over (mean age = 69.7 years). DESIGN AND MEASUREMENTS: Participants underwent three affect induction trials, each followed by a different emotion regulation strategy: distraction, reappraisal, and a no-instruction control condition. Self-reported affect was recorded pre- and post-affect induction, and at one-minute intervals during regulation.
resultsAcross groups, participants reported greater reductions in negative affect with distraction than reappraisal or the no-instruction control condition. An interaction between group and regulation condition indicated that distraction was more effective in reducing negative affect in the MDD group than the ND group.
conclusionsThese results suggest that distraction is an especially effective strategy for reducing negative affect in older adults with MDD. Finding ways to incorporate distraction skills into psychotherapeutic interventions for late-life MDD may improve their effectiveness, especially for short-term improvement of affect following rumination.
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