Associations of trait positive emotion regulation with everyday emotions: An experience sampling approach

Wah, Tsz; Bryant, Fred B.; Hou, Wai Kai

doi:10.1002/ijop.12650

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“…Within the use of individual strategies, savoring the moment explained the largest amount of variance in the regression analysis. Similar findings on the elevated role of savoring the moment were provided by a study from our colleagues [47] (30) . In the study, the authors found savoring the moment to be the only upregulation strategy that yielded higher pleasant emotions during negatively valenced events.…”

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Emotions and emotion up-regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

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In stressful situations such as the COVID-19-pandemic, unpleasant emotions are expected to increase while pleasant emotions will likely decrease. Little is known about the role cognitive appraisals, information management, and upregulating pleasant emotions can play to support emotion regulation in a pandemic. In an online survey (N = 1682), we investigated predictors of changes in pleasant and unpleasant emotions in a German sample (aged 18–88 years) shortly after the first restrictions were imposed. Crisis self-efficacy and felt restriction were predictors of changes in unpleasant emotions and joy alike. The application of emotion up-regulation strategies was weakly associated with changes in joy. Among the different upregulation strategies, only “savouring the moment” predicted changes in joy. Our study informs future research perspectives assessing the role of upregulating pleasant emotions under challenging circumstances.

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“…Savoring correlates with more positive emotion, particularly for individuals with high and moderate (but not low) levels of mindfulness ( Kiken et al, 2017 ). Moreover, savoring correlates with more positive emotion during negative events, and lower negative emotions during positive events, which, overall, may help to amplify net positive emotion ( Ma et al, 2020 ). People with schizophrenia report less savoring than unaffected comparison participants, which may impede the up-regulation of positive affect ( Cassar et al, 2013 ).…”

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Psychological Dimensions Relevant to Motivation and Pleasure in Schizophrenia

Abram

Weittenhiller

Bertrand

et al. 2022

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Motivation and pleasure deficits are common in schizophrenia, strongly linked with poorer functioning, and may reflect underlying alterations in brain functions governing reward processing and goal pursuit. While there is extensive research examining cognitive and reward mechanisms related to these deficits in schizophrenia, less attention has been paid to psychological characteristics that contribute to resilience against, or risk for, motivation and pleasure impairment. For example, psychological tendencies involving positive future expectancies (e.g., optimism) and effective affect management (e.g., reappraisal, mindfulness) are associated with aspects of reward anticipation and evaluation that optimally guide goal-directed behavior. Conversely, maladaptive thinking patterns (e.g., defeatist performance beliefs, asocial beliefs) and tendencies that amplify negative cognitions (e.g., rumination), may divert cognitive resources away from goal pursuit or reduce willingness to exert effort. Additionally, aspects of sociality, including the propensity to experience social connection as positive reinforcement may be particularly relevant for pursuing social goals. In the current review, we discuss the roles of several psychological characteristics with respect to motivation and pleasure in schizophrenia. We argue that individual variation in these psychological dimensions is relevant to the study of motivation and reward processing in schizophrenia, including interactions between these psychological dimensions and more well-characterized cognitive and reward processing contributors to motivation. We close by emphasizing the value of considering a broad set of modulating factors when studying motivation and pleasure functions in schizophrenia.

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“…Li, Starr, & Hershenberg (2017) found in a study of young adults that daily rumination effort regarding positive events, also referred to as 'savoring', was negatively associated with daily depressive symptoms. In adults, Ma, Bryant, & Hou (2020) also found that higher positive trait rumination was associated with greater positive affect during positive events. Furthermore, in adulthood, a dispositional tendency to think about one's positive experiences and allocate attention to them has been associated with higher life-satisfaction and lower depression (Bryant, 2003).…”

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Emotion regulation in response to daily negative and positive events in youth: The role of event intensity and psychopathology

Hiekkaranta

Lafit

Decoster³

et al. 2021

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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Environmental and individual contextual factors profoundly influence how people regulate their emotions. The current article addresses the role of event intensity and psychopathology (an admixture of depression, anxiety, and psychoticism) on emotion regulation in response to naturally occurring events. For six days each evening, a youth sample (aged 15-25, N = 713) recorded the intensity of the most positive and most negative event of the day and their subsequent emotion regulation. The intensity of negative events was positively associated with summed total emotion regulation effort, strategy diversity, engaging in rumination, situation modification, emotion expression, and sharing and negatively associated with reappraisal and acceptance. The intensity of positive events was positively associated with strategy diversity, savoring, emotion expression, and sharing. Higher psychopathology symptoms were only related to ruminating more about negative events. We interpret these findings as support for the role of context in the degree of effort and type of emotion regulation that young people engage in.

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Associations of trait positive emotion regulation with everyday emotions: An experience sampling approach

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

Emotions and emotion up-regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Emotions and emotion up-regulation during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany

Psychological Dimensions Relevant to Motivation and Pleasure in Schizophrenia

Emotion regulation in response to daily negative and positive events in youth: The role of event intensity and psychopathology

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