A Temporal-Causal Network Model for Age and Gender Difference in Choice of Emotion Regulation Strategies

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A second-order adaptive temporal-causal network model for age and gender differences in evolving choice of emotion regulation strategies

“…The network model introduced here extends the network model (Gao et al, 2019) in two ways. First, as mentioned in the possible future work section of (Gao et al, 2019), adaptivity has been added to the model where the connections either get stronger or weaker over time as in real life.…”

“…The network model introduced here extends the network model (Gao et al, 2019) in two ways. First, as mentioned in the possible future work section of (Gao et al, 2019), adaptivity has been added to the model where the connections either get stronger or weaker over time as in real life. So, in contrast to (Gao et al, 2019), the simulation results now represent an entire life episode in terms of emotion regulation strategies.…”

“…First, as mentioned in the possible future work section of (Gao et al, 2019), adaptivity has been added to the model where the connections either get stronger or weaker over time as in real life. So, in contrast to (Gao et al, 2019), the simulation results now represent an entire life episode in terms of emotion regulation strategies. In real life, some connections will get stronger due to some factors at one stage of life and other connection will get weaker due to some other reasons and this process keeps taking place throughout one's life.…”

“…In contrast, with an increase in age, a shift takes place: when men grow older they turn to reappraisal from suppression while women move from reappraisal to suppression as their age increases (Masumoto, Taishi, & Shiozaki, 2016). On the basis of these findings from psychology and an already developed non-adaptive model for age and gender differences in choice of emotion regulation strategies (Gao, Liu, & Ullah, 2019), this work extends the non-adaptive network model in (Gao et al, 2019) to a second-order adaptive network model (Treur, 2016(Treur, , 2020. The newly introduced adaptive network model gives an in-depth overview of the choices of ER strategies over time.…”

“…In contrast to the non-adaptive network model in (Gao et al, 2019), in the model introduced here higher-order adaptation is addressed (Treur, 2020). Figure 2 shows the first and second reification levels of the model along with the base model already shown in Figure 1.…”