Emotional attention set-shifting and its relationship to anxiety and emotion regulation.

Johnson, Dan R.

doi:10.1037/a0017095

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“…Likewise, further research is needed to examine additional parental characteristics, such as beliefs and worries about child pain [see e.g., 34], and their role in understanding nature and consequences of emotion regulatory strategies. Finally, the present study compares two attentional strategies and thus does not reflect the broadness and complexity of the emotion regulation repertoire, including the key ability to flexibly switch between different strategies [1,47,84]. Within-subject designs lacking specific instructions regarding strategy implementation would yield important information about parents' spontaneous strategy choice, ability to flexibly switch between strategies, and the impact of these factors on emotion and helping behavior.…”

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“…Gross' process model of emotion generation/regulation [39] suggests an explanation by differentiating two types of regulation strategies, defined by timing and role during the unfolding of an emotional response. According to Gross [39], attentional strategies (e.g., attentional engagement vs. avoidance) can be considered antecedent-focused in that they operate before or during emotional activation rather than after emotion has achieved full form [39,47,48]. In contrast, response-focused strategies reflect attempts to control ongoing emotional (i.e., physiological, experiential, behavioural) responding.…”

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“…A number of strategies facilitate distress regulation [39,50,83]. In particular, attentional deployment (i.e., attentional engagement or avoidance) is supported as a central emotion regulation strategy across a number of non-pain domains [39,47,48,83]. Similarly, attending away from one's own pain reduces pain aversiveness and efforts to control pain, reflected by increased tolerance [31,54 but see 43,55].…”

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Emotion regulatory function of parent attention to child pain and associated implications for parental pain control behaviour

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We investigated the function of parental attention to child pain in regulating parental distress and pain control behaviour when observing their child performing a painful (cold pressor) task (CPT); we also studied the moderating role of parental state anxiety. Participants were 62 schoolchildren and one of their parents. Parental attention towards or away from child pain (ie, attend to pain vs avoid pain) was experimentally manipulated during a viewing task pairing unfamiliar children's neutral and pain faces. Before and after the viewing task, parental distress regulation was assessed by heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV). In a subsequent phase, parents observed their own child perform a CPT task, allowing assessment of parental pain control behaviour (indexed by latency to stop their child's CPT performance) and parental distress, which was assessed via self-report before and after observation of child CPT performance. Eye tracking during the viewing task and self-reported attention to own child's pain confirmed successful attention manipulation. Further, findings indicated that the effect of attentional strategy on parental emotion regulation (indexed by HR, self-report) and pain control behaviour depended on parents' state anxiety. Specifically, whereas low anxious parents reported more distress and demonstrated more pain control behaviour in the Attend to Pain condition, high anxious parents reported more distress and showed more pain control behaviour in the Avoid Pain condition. This inverse pattern was likewise apparent in physiological distress indices (HR) in response to the initial viewing task. Theoretical/clinical implications and further research directions are discussed

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“…Gross and Thompson's [2007] modal model of ER is one commonly employed framework for guiding the selection of measures and operationalizing ER for research and clinical purposes Bilek & Ehrenreich-May, 2012;Campbell-Sills & Barlow, 2007;Johnson, 2009]. It has been used as the basis for advancing the development of cognitive behavioral interventions for youth [Ehrenreich-May, Queen, Bilek, Remmes, & Marciel, 2013;Trosper et al, 2009] and for adults [Moses & Barlow, 2006].…”

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A Systematic Literature Review of Emotion Regulation Measurement in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

2014

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Emotion regulation (ER) difficulties are a potential common factor underlying the presentation of multiple emotional and behavioral problems in individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). To provide an overview of how ER has been studied in individuals with ASD, we conducted a systematic review of the past 20 years of ER research in the ASD population, using established keywords from the most comprehensive ER literature review of the typically developing population to date. Out of an initial sampling of 305 studies, 32 were eligible for review. We examined the types of methods (self-report, informant report, naturalistic observation/ behavior coding, physiological, and open-ended) and the ER constructs based on Gross and Thompson's modal model (situation selection, situation modification, attention deployment, cognitive change, and response modulation). Studies most often assessed ER using one type of method and from a unidimensional perspective. Across the 32 studies, we documented the types of measures used and found that 38% of studies used self-report, 44% included an informant report measure, 31% included at least one naturalistic observation/behavior coding measure, 13% included at least one physiological measure, and 13% included at least one open-ended measure. Only 25% of studies used more than one method of measurement. The findings of the current review provide the field with an in-depth analysis of various ER measures and how each measure taps into an ER framework. Future research can use this model to examine ER in a multicomponent way and through multiple methods. Autism Res 2014, 7: 629-648 [American Psychiatric Association, 2013], and there is considerable evidence that the majority also struggle with associated emotional problems. For instance, in a population derived cohort of 5-to 16-year-olds, Totsika, Hastings, Emerson, Lancaster, and Berridge [2011] found that 85% of youth with ASD without an intellectual disability (ID) had clinically significant levels of hyperactivity, 74% of emotional problems, and 64% of conduct problems, compared to much lower rates in a typically developing comparison group (19% hyperactivity, 18% emotional problems, and 22% conduct problems). Further, youth with ID and ASD had higher rates of emotional disorders than those with only ID (88% vs. 63% for hyperactivity, 71% vs. 42% for emotional problems, and 65% vs. 46% for conduct problems, respectively). There is also considerable co-occurrence of multiple emotional problems in individuals with ASD. Approximately 40-50% of youth with ASD are estimated to meet criteria for two or more psychiatric disorders, often combining attentional or behavioral problems (e.g. ADHD) with internalizing problems (e.g. anxiety disorder), even after taking into account symptoms that may be related to core ASD sociocommunicative and behavioral symptoms [Leyfer et al., 2006;Simonoff et al., 2008].

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“…In line with this, some studies show a decrease in physiological arousal during meditation (Danucalov, Simões, Kozasa, & Leite, 2008;Telles, Mohapatra, & Naveen, 2005) and a concomitant effect of a relaxed state with an attentive mind during practice (Kubota et al, 2001;Takahashi et al, 2005;). This can be particularly important because some studies demonstrated that high levels of anxiety can interact with attention, impairing the cognitive modulation of negative emotion (Johnson, 2009;Mocaiber et al, 2009).…”

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Sitting and silent meditation as a strategy to study emotion regulation.

Menezes

Pereira

Bizarro

2012

Psychology & Neuroscience

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Emotion regulation is the capacity to control the way in which people attend, perceive, process and react to emotional information. Practitioners of sitting and silent meditation develop a greater control of their mental processes, culminating in regulatory abilities that lead to well-being and emotional balance. In this paper we reviewed evidence from recent studies on neurophysiology and cognitive psychology on emotion regulation-focusing on negative emotions-and meditation in order to discuss their intertwining. This critical review showed that controlling attention and fostering a relaxation state are the main mechanisms for the interaction between emotion regulation and meditation. Importantly, it is suggested that the effects of meditation on emotion regulation should be conceptualized separately as those taking effect during the practice and those occurring as an outcome of such practice. Finally, it is highlighted that meditation should be conceived as a particular type of emotion regulation strategy, and that further studies comparing these strategies more directly are warranted.

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Emotional attention set-shifting and its relationship to anxiety and emotion regulation.

Cited by 92 publications

References 60 publications

Emotion regulatory function of parent attention to child pain and associated implications for parental pain control behaviour

Emotion regulatory function of parent attention to child pain and associated implications for parental pain control behaviour

A Systematic Literature Review of Emotion Regulation Measurement in Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Sitting and silent meditation as a strategy to study emotion regulation.

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