Contextual variation in beliefs about emotion and associated emotion regulation efforts

Veilleux, Jennifer C.; Warner, Elise A.; Chamberlain, Kaitlyn D.; Brott, Katherine Hyde; Schreiber, Regina E.; Clift, Jeremy B.

doi:10.1007/s11031-022-09992-9

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“…A small but growing body of empirical work lends initial support to the possibility that occurrent emotion beliefs play an important role in shaping regulatory efforts (Gutentag et al, 2022; Millgram et al, 2022; Veilleux et al, 2020, 2023; Wittkamp et al, 2022). Consistent with findings from the literature on dispositional emotion beliefs, recent studies show that people are more likely to regulate everyday negative emotions when they believe them to be relatively more harmful than helpful; and more likely to disengage from negative emotions (using strategies like distraction or avoidance) when they perceive such emotions to be relatively uncontrollable (Wittkamp et al, 2022).…”

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“…Occurrent beliefs refer to individuals' momentary judgments of the specific emotions they experience in a given moment (as opposed to the more enduring beliefs about emotions as a whole, which can also fluctuate across time; see Veilleux et al, 2020Veilleux et al, , 2023. When deciding whether or not to regulate any given emotion and if so, how, individuals would seem more likely to rely on their occurrent beliefs about a specific instance of an emotion rather than on their dispositional beliefs about emotions as a whole.…”

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Occurrent beliefs about emotions predict emotion regulation in everyday life.

Petrova,

Zielke,

Mehta

et al. 2024

Emotion

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Whether and how people regulate their negative emotions matters a great deal. However, it is not yet clear why people regulate as they do. One promising idea is that people's beliefs shape their emotion regulation choices, and initial evidence indicates that individuals' dispositional beliefs about emotions are indeed associated with general patterns of emotion regulation. The present study extends prior work on emotion beliefs to better understand how occurrent (i.e., momentary) beliefs about helpfulness, controllability, and justification of specific emotions shape whether and how people regulate negative emotions in everyday life. Participants (N = 143; U.S. community college students recruited in 2022; 76% female; age = 18-60) completed a 7-day experience-sampling protocol in which they were pinged three times per day to describe their most recent negative experiences and answer questions about their emotions, occurrent beliefs about emotions, and emotion regulation. With respect to whether people regulate their emotions, results reveal that people regulate their emotions more when they perceive them to be less helpful. Exploratory analyses additionally show that people regulate negative emotions more when they perceive them to be more controllable and when emotional intensity is relatively high. In terms of how people regulate their emotions, people are more likely to use reappraisal when emotions are seen as more helpful, more controllable, and less justified; and more likely to use distraction when emotions are seen as less helpful and more justified. These findings contribute to a more fine-grained understanding of how beliefs shape emotion regulation in everyday life.

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Section: From Dispositional To Occurrent Emotion Beliefs In the Study...mentioning

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Occurrent beliefs about emotions predict emotion regulation in everyday life.

Petrova,

Zielke,

Mehta

et al. 2024

Emotion

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“…Other contextual variables have been shown to influence one’s beliefs about emotion. A study featured in this special issue by Veilleux et al ( 2023 ) showed that one’s beliefs about emotions can change over the course of a day depending upon numerous factors including, but not limited to, one’s current mood, their level of tiredness, and whether they have recently consumed psychoactive substances such as caffeine or alcohol. We anticipate and hope that research in this area will continue to uncover increasingly fine-grained descriptions of laypeople’s perspectives on emotion, as well as their causes and consequences.…”

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“…Findings from this study showed that, overall, having a strong belief that emotion serves an important function was related to less expressive suppression and more cognitive reappraisal. Veilleux et al provided a more granular view of the impact of emotion perspectives on daily emotion regulation (Veilleux et al, 2023 ). Their investigation focused on variation in emotion beliefs across contexts and across time.…”

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Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions

Kneeland

Kisley

2023

Motiv Emot

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Empirical research has demonstrated that individuals vary widely in how they view their emotions. We call the viewpoints that individuals have towards their emotions emotion perspectives. While many subdisciplines of psychology, such as social psychology and clinical psychology, have studied this topic, research thus far can be siloed, despite overlap in terms and constructs. The goal of the current special issue and this introduction is to describe the state of research on emotion perspectives, highlight common themes in streams of emotion perspective research, and present future directions for investigation. The first portion of this introduction to the special issue provides a basic review of emotion perspective research, spotlighting topics such as emotion beliefs, emotion mindsets, lay theories of emotion, and attitudes toward emotion. The second portion of the introduction presents themes that cut across papers in the special issue, with a discussion of future research directions throughout. The goal of this introduction and special issue is to serve as a guide for greater integration in emotion perspective research and to provide a roadmap for emotion perspective research moving forward.

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Emotion beliefs: conceptual review and compendium

Kisley,

Shulkin,

Meza-Whitlatch

et al. 2024

Front. Psychol.

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Laypeople hold richly divergent beliefs about emotion, and these beliefs are consequential. Specific forms of belief that have been investigated include the usefulness, contagiousness, duration, dependence upon intersubjective experience, cognitively mediated properties, malleability, and hindering properties of emotion, just to name a few. Progress in this emerging sub-field of research has been hampered by the lack of a widely accepted definition of emotion belief able to capture all of these dimensions. Correspondingly, there has been a proliferation of different terminologies, constructs, and measures. The present review aims to address these obstacles by defining emotion belief, and subsequently re-considering existing constructs and measures that align with this definition. The latter is presented in the form of a comprehensive compendium of 21 different constructs and associated self-report measures that assess varying components of one’s beliefs about emotions in general and/or about their own emotions, and an additional 5 scales that were designed to measure one’s beliefs about another’s emotions. From the more unified conceptualization of emotion belief presented here, critical areas of future research are highlighted.

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Contextual variation in beliefs about emotion and associated emotion regulation efforts

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Occurrent beliefs about emotions predict emotion regulation in everyday life.

Occurrent beliefs about emotions predict emotion regulation in everyday life.

Lay perspectives on emotion: past, present, and future research directions

Emotion beliefs: conceptual review and compendium

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