Benefits of emotional integration and costs of emotional distancing

Roth, Guy; Shahar, Bat-Hen; Zohar-Shefer, Yael; Benita, Moti; Moed, Anat; Bibi, Uri; Kanat‐Maymon, Yaniv; Ryan, Richard M.

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“…Directional A basic need directs and shapes individuals' thinking, acting, and feeling, thereby spurring the pro-active search for needconducive circumstances, partners, and activities under supportive conditions, while eliciting corrective behavior under need thwarting circumstances 4. Explanatory A basic need helps to account for or explain the relation between variations in social contexts, both growth-promoting and toxic, and wellness-related outcomes consolidation (Luyckx et al 2009;Skhirtladze et al 2019), emotion regulation (Roth et al 2018(Roth et al , 2019 and political engagement (Wüttke 2020). That is, BPNT specified that these varied positive developmental outcomes would be facilated by need supports and satisfactions.…”

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Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

2020

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The study of basic psychological needs has witnessed a strong revival, in part spurred by Basic Psychological Need Theory (BPNT), one of the six mini-theories within Self-Determination Theory. Empirical studies on BPNT have increased exponentially since the millennium turn, leading to refinements and extensions in theory. In this contribution we review these two decades of research in order to introduce two special issues on BPNT. We first discuss key criteria that define and identify a basic need within BPNT. We then review several need-relevant themes, highlighting advancements and trends that characterize contemporary research on BPNT. Specifically, we address potential extensions of the shortlist of basic psychological needs, the role of psychological need frustration in increasing vulnerability to maladjustment, the study of the interface between individuals' psychological and physical needs (e.g., sleep, sex, hunger), novel insights into critical need-supportive and need-thwarting practices, and the universality (versus variability) of effects of need satisfactions and supports across demographics, psychological characteristics, and cultural contexts. We also situate each of the 19 contributions that appear in this special double-issue on BPNT within these themes, while suggesting avenues for further research on the role of basic psychological needs in motivation, adjustment, and wellness.

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Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

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“…IER facilitates the capacities required to set aside injury and ego blows in one’s deliberations. Specifically, IER entails going toward affect, both positive and negative, accepting them as sources of input, information, and growth (see Ryan et al, ; Roth et al, ), a process also essential in psychotherapy (Ryan & Deci, ). IER involves taking interest in and accepting negative emotions, and rather than positively reframing or suppressing them, listening to what they have to tell us.…”

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“…Empirical research supports this IER approach. For example, Roth et al () examined the emotional, physiological, and cognitive consequences of IER and emotion suppression in relation to a fear‐eliciting film. People high in IER evidenced more open and fuller processing of fearful stimuli to which they were exposed, leading to less distress on subsequent exposure.…”

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Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

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Vansteenkiste

2018

Journal of Personality

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Objective This special issue focuses on self‐determination theory (SDT) as an integrative framework for the wider field of personality research. In this commentary our aims include: reflecting on the utility and strengths of SDT as such a general framework and responding to the various contributions in this issue regarding their use of SDT as a guiding, complementary, or contrasting framework. Methods and Results We describe how SDT has developed organically and conservatively from “within” based on the emerging patterns of evidence, as well through the ongoing challenges from other models and frameworks. We then discuss each of the various contributions to this special issue, addressing themes that include SDT’s breadth of methods, and its relevance to topics such as narcissism, wisdom, individual differences, Big‐Five traits, and the neuropsychology of motivation, among others. Across these discussions, we highlight fruitful avenues for research and cross‐fertilization across the fields of personality, development, motivation, and neuroscience. At the same time, we counter some claims made about SDT, and forward certain cautions regarding the integration of SDT and other personality frameworks and models. Conclusions We conclude by revisiting the value of broad theory, and SDT in particular, for coordinating complex research findings concerning motivation, personality development and wellness across multiple levels of analysis and, perhaps more importantly, for pointing researchers to the right questions within today’s prolific empiricism.

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“…Such flexibility is offered by the capacity to manage volitionally one's emotions, a capacity called emotional integration (Ryan, Deci, Grolnick, & La Guardia, 2006). It involves being open even to negative emotions, which, if mindfully processed, can result in subsequent lower arousal and better cognitive functioning, when compared to emotional distancing (Roth et al, 2018;Roth, Vansteenkiste, & Ryan, 2019). Through integrative emotion regulation, it is likely that emotional conflict will be approached with high flexibility, leading in turn to an alignment of moral rules and emotions, i.e.…”

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Consistency and moral integrity: A self-determination theory perspective

Arvanitis

Kalliris

2019

Journal of Moral Education

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If acting morally can be viewed as acting consistently with a moral principle or rule, then being a person with moral integrity can be viewed as consistently applying moral principles or rules across different types of situations. We advance a view of moral integrity that incorporates three distinct, but interrelated, types of moral consistency: cognitive, emotional and motivational moral consistency. Our approach is based on Self-Determination Theory, a motivational theory that can explain when a moral rule becomes the primary motive for behavior. We argue that moral integrity is achieved when a person acts on the basis of an internal moral system of principles, emotions and motives and provide an account of the way that it develops during a person's interaction with the environment.

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Benefits of emotional integration and costs of emotional distancing

Abstract: The current studies provide some support for the assumption that in comparison to ED, taking interest in and accepting one's negative emotions are linked with less defensive processing of negative experiences and with better functioning.

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Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

Basic psychological need theory: Advancements, critical themes, and future directions

Reflections on self‐determination theory as an organizing framework for personality psychology: Interfaces, integrations, issues, and unfinished business

Consistency and moral integrity: A self-determination theory perspective

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