ArticleJournal of personality2019
Regulating for a reason: Emotion regulation goals are linked to spontaneous strategy use.
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- Emotion regulation in response to discrimination: Exploring the role of self-control and impression management emotion-regulation goals.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Beyond strategies: The when and why of emotion regulation in aging.Current opinion in psychology · 2024Review
- Factor structure of the Chinese version of Emotion Regulation Goals Scale.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Emotion regulation goals and strategies among individuals with varying levels of sensory processing sensitivity: a latent profile analysis.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Keeping Up Appearances: The Role of Motives and Utility Beliefs in Expressive Suppression.Motivation and emotion · 2023Article
- Childhood maltreatment and emotion regulation in everyday life: an experience sampling study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Decoding the Regulator: Accuracy and Bias in Emotion Regulation Judgments.Affective science · 2022Article
- Momentary Emotion Goals and Spontaneous Emotion Regulation in Daily Life: An Ecological Momentary Assessment Study of Desire for High Versus Low Arousal Positive Emotion.Affective science · 2022Article
- A domain-differentiated approach to everyday emotion regulation from adolescence to older age.Psychology and aging · 2022Article
- Individual Differences in Negative Emotion Differentiation Predict Resting-State Spontaneous Emotional Regulatory Processes.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Emotion Regulation in Everyday Life: The Role of Goals and Situational Factors.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Individual differences in emotion regulation goals: Does personality predict the reasons why people regulate their emotions?Journal of personality · 2019Article
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objectiveWe investigated how individual differences in emotion regulation goals predict emotion regulation strategy use in daily life.
methodAcross three studies, we assessed two common types of emotion regulation goals (hedonic, social) and strategies spanning the entire process model of emotion regulation. We conducted two studies using global measures with undergraduates (N = 394; 18-25 years; 69% female; 56% European American) and community members (N = 302; 19-74 years; 50% female; 75% European American), and a nine-day daily diary study with another community sample (N = 272; 23-85 years; 50% female; 84% European American).
resultsGlobally and in daily life, pro-hedonic goals were positively associated with all antecedent-focused strategies (situation selection, situation modification, distraction, and reappraisal), pro-social goals were positively linked to reappraisal, and impression management goals positively predicted suppression. Contra-hedonic goals were negatively associated with reappraisal and positively associated with suppression in some studies.
conclusionsThe reasons why people regulate their emotions are predictive of the strategies they use in daily life. These links may be functional, such that people typically use strategies that are suitable for their goals. These findings demonstrate the value of an individual difference approach and highlight the motivational component of emotion regulation.
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