When Negative Emotions Stick Together: Interconnectedness Explains How Emotion Regulation Strategies Shape Distress.

Xinru Ma, Jianjie Xu, Hui Wang, Peiyuan Zhao, Qiaoyao Lin, Mark Shuquan Chen

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Article in Journal of youth and adolescence, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Xinru Ma *Bay Area School of Applied Psychological Sciences, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, China.

Jianjie Xu *Beijing Key Laboratory of Applied Experimental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, National Demonstration Center for Experimental Psychology Education (Beijing Normal University), Faculty of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.

Hui WangBay Area School of Applied Psychological Sciences, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, China. huiwang@bnu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0011-8899

Peiyuan ZhaoBay Area School of Applied Psychological Sciences, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, China.

Qiaoyao LinBay Area School of Applied Psychological Sciences, Beijing Normal University at Zhuhai, Zhuhai, China.

Mark Shuquan ChenDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.

Funding

Guangdong Province Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project GD24YXL04National Natural Science Foundation of China 32300891

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Abstract

Emerging adulthood is a critical developmental period marked by heightened emotional volatility and increased vulnerability to anxiety and depression, yet the mechanisms linking emotion regulation habits to emotional distress remain unclear. Traditional approaches often examine emotions in isolation, overlooking how negative emotions unfold as dynamic networks that may sustain distress over time. Guided by a dynamic network perspective, this study examined whether negative emotion network density, further decomposed into emotional inertia and interconnectedness, mediated the associations between emotion regulation strategies and subsequent emotional distress. Chinese undergraduates (N = 421; M

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Emotional RegulationEmotionsPsychological DistressStress, PsychologicalAdolescentAnxietyChinaCoping SkillsDepressionFemaleHumansMaleYoung Adultcognitive reappraisalemotional interconnectednessemotion network density

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PMID42217094

DOI10.1007/s10964-026-02366-1

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