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Distraction and Expressive Suppression Strategies in Regulation of High- and Low-Intensity Negative Emotions.
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- Estimation Strategy Utilization Is Modulated by Implicit Emotion Regulation: Evidence from Behavioral and Event-Related Potentials Studies.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Habitual adaptive emotion regulation moderates the association between maladaptive emotion regulation and eating disorder symptoms, but not clinical impairment.Eating and weight disorders : EWD · 2022Article
- Mindful Eating Questionnaire: Validation and Reliability in Romanian Adults.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Emotion regulation strategies differentially modulate neural activity across affective prediction stages: An HD-EEG investigation.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Rest a while and run a mile: Relationship between distraction and negative emotions among college students in China.PloS one · 2020Article
- Monitoring in emotion regulation: behavioral decisions and neural consequences.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2019Article
- Characteristics of the regulation of the surprise emotion.Scientific reports · 2019Article
- Cognitive load and emotional processing in psoriasis: a thermal imaging study.Experimental brain research · 2019Article
- [Psychometric Properties of the Behavioral Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (BERQ) in Peruvian Adolescents].International journal of psychological researchArticle
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Abstract
The current study compared the effectiveness of distraction, an antecedent-focused strategy that involves diverting an individual's attention away from affective terms, and expressive suppression, a response-focused strategy that involves inhibiting conscious emotion-expressive behavior during an emotionally aroused state, in the regulation of high- and low-intensity unpleasant stimuli, using event-related potentials (ERPs). Sixteen participants completed an emotion regulation experiment in which they passively viewed high- or low-intensity unpleasant images (view), solved a mathematical equation presented on high- or low-intensity negative images (distraction), or suppressed their emotional expression in response to high- or low-intensity unpleasant images (suppression). Their negative experiences after implementation of these strategies were rated by participants on a 1-9 scale. We mainly found that compared with expressive suppression, distraction yielded greater attenuation of the early phase of centro-parietal LPP when the participants responded to high-intensity stimuli. In the low-intensity condition, distraction, but not expressive suppression, effectively decreased the early phase of LPP. The findings suggest that expressive suppression works as early as distraction in the high-intensity condition; more importantly, distraction is superior to expressive suppression in regulating negative emotion, which is influenced by emotional intensity.
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