Emotion Regulation Compensation Following Situation Selection Failure

Vujovic, Lara; Urry, Heather L.

doi:10.1038/s41598-018-23654-2

“…For example, Hay et al (2015) found that participants had stronger preferences for distraction when regulating their responses to negative than when regulating their responses to positive images. Additionally, people generally prefer to approach positive stimuli and/or avoid negative stimuli Sands et al, 2016;Vujović & Urry, 2018), but the valence of an individual's emotions can influence the stimuli that people choose to engage with or prefer, with several studies finding a mood-congruency effect in which participants select (e.g. Friedman et al, 2012, Study 1;Kim, 2013) or prefer (e.g.…”

Section: Affective Determinantsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Identifying the determinants of emotion regulation choice: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Matthews

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Webb

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Shafir

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et al. 2021

Cognition and Emotion

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Day-to-day life is inundated with attempts to control emotions and a wealth of research has examined what strategies people use and how effective these strategies are. However, until more recently, research has often neglected more basic questions such as whether and how people choose to regulate their emotions (i.e. emotion regulation choice). In an effort to identify what we know and what we need to know, we systematically reviewed studies that examined potential determinants of whether and how people choose to regulate their emotions. Eighteen determinants were identified across 219 studies and were categorised as being affective, cognitive, motivational, individual or social-cultural in nature. Where there were sufficient primary studies, meta-analysis was used to quantify the size of the associations between potential determinants and measures of whether and how people choose to regulate their emotions. Based on the findings, we propose that people's decisions about whether and how to regulate their emotions are determined by factors relating to the individual doing the regulating, the emotion that is being regulated, and both the immediate situation and the broader social context in which the regulation is taking place.

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“…Having the choice may thus lower body reactivity, at least in the short term, and counteract emotional arousal in people facing emotional stimulations. At the time the present study was completed, a study by Vujovic and colleague (Vujović and Urry 2018 ) showed that people do not compensate with another emotion regulation strategy when Situation selection has failed. Interpreting their results in combination with ours, we propose that this absence of need to further regulate emotions is due to Situation selection (whether a success or not) being already regulatory on some emotional responses (e.g., physiological).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 96%

Efficiency of Illusory Choice Used as a Variant of Situation Selection for Regulating Emotions: Reduction of Positive Experience But Preservation of Physiological Downregulation

Thuillard

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Dan-Glauser

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2020

Appl Psychophysiol Biofeedback

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Situation selection is an emotion regulation strategy consisting in choosing a future emotional situation. Past research showed that Situation selection triggers a decrease in negative experience, exocrine reactions and respiratory activity, while maintaining stable positive experience. In this study, we wanted to replicate these observations and test emotional responses that follow an Illusory choice, i.e., when the chosen situation is not available and replaced by another. Sixty-eight participants watched emotional pictures, either in a condition in which the images were imposed, or in a condition in which they could perform a choice. In these latter trials, participants saw either the chosen option (Situation selection) or the non-selected option (Illusory choice). Continuous recordings of experience and physiological arousal showed that, unlike Situation selection, Illusory choice decreased positive experience but not negative experience. Strikingly, however, we showed that having the choice decreased skin conductance and respiratory arousal, regardless of whether the choice was respected or not. These results have important implications regarding emotion regulation through Situation selection, since having the choice about the upcoming emotional situation, no matter if we really end up in this situation, gives a sense of control that may be sufficient to alleviate physiological responses to stressors.

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“…5 Neural Plasticity cognitive empathy accuracy in the positive emotion condition compared to HCs, though these groups had the same direct and indirect emotional empathy in the positive emo-tion condition. This might be caused by compensation for the impaired empathetic recognition (i.e., impaired cognitive empathy accuracy) in the positive emotion condition [33]. From this, it can be seen that accurately detecting the levels of empathy ability and pain requires that appropriate comprehensive assessment methods are used.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Impaired Cognitive Empathy in Outpatients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study

Zhang

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Ou

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Meng

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et al. 2021

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Background. In recent years, a growing number of researchers showed significant interest in psychological and social interventions to manage chronic musculoskeletal (MSK) pain. Cognitive and emotional empathy is an attractive and valuable sociopsychological factor that may provide protection and resilience against chronic MSK pain. However, its effect on outpatients remains underexplored. Objective. To compare the empathy ability between chronic MSK pain outpatients and healthy controls and explore the relationship between cognitive/emotional empathy and chronic pain. Methods. Patients with chronic MSK pain ( n = 22 ) and healthy controls ( n = 26 ) completed the pain assessment and empathy ability task, utilizing a multidimensional empathy assessment tool with satisfactory reliability and validity (i.e., the Chinese version of the Multifaceted Empathy Test (MET-C)). Results. The data indicated that the chronic MSK pain outpatients had impaired cognitive empathy (i.e., lower squared cognitive empathy accuracy: Student’s t = − 2.119 , P = 0.040 , and longer task completion time: Student’s t = 3.382 , P = 0.002 ) compared to healthy controls, and cognitive empathy was negatively correlated with pain intensity ( r = − 0.614 , P = 0.002 ). Further, the impaired cognitive empathy was present in identifying positive, but not negative emotions. Conclusion. These results indicate that chronic MSK pain is associated with impaired empathy ability. Our studies contribute to offering a potential direction for developing psychosocial interventions to treat chronic MSK pain.

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Emotion Regulation Compensation Following Situation Selection Failure

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Identifying the determinants of emotion regulation choice: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Identifying the determinants of emotion regulation choice: a systematic review with meta-analysis

Efficiency of Illusory Choice Used as a Variant of Situation Selection for Regulating Emotions: Reduction of Positive Experience But Preservation of Physiological Downregulation

Impaired Cognitive Empathy in Outpatients with Chronic Musculoskeletal Pain: A Cross-Sectional Study

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