The use and change of emotion regulation strategies: The promoting effect of cognitive flexibility

Gao, Wei; Chen, Shengdong; Chen, Yongqiang; He, Feilan; Yang, Jiemin; Yuan, Jiajin

doi:10.1360/tb-2020-1035

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“…Second, it has been suggested that emotion regulation flexibility is a subset of cognitive flexibility 85 and that it may be a specific manifestation of cognitive flexibility in changing regulation strategies according to the context, facilitating individuals to respond differently to changing situations. 16 However, whether cognitive flexibility has an indirect or direct effect on individuals’ emotional responses requires further empirical investigation. It is important to note that greater flexibility in emotion regulation choices is not better, and too much flexibility may reflect hypersensitivity or instability to situations.…”

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“… 13–15 In recent years, researchers have gradually shifted from focusing on the tendency and effectiveness of emotion regulation to paying more attention to the flexibility and adaptability of emotion regulation. 16 …”

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“…[13][14][15] In recent years, researchers have gradually shifted from focusing on the tendency and effectiveness of emotion regulation to paying more attention to the flexibility and adaptability of emotion regulation. 16 Choice behavior is a fundamental means by which individuals control their environment. 17 Emotion regulation choice refers to the act of autonomously choosing between different regulation strategies available in a given context.…”

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Distract or Reappraise? The Mechanism of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Choice and Its Influential Factors

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Previous research on emotion regulation has focused more on the regulation effects corresponding to a particular emotion regulation strategy, yet the same regulation strategy may produce different regulation effects in different contexts. Similarly, one regulation strategy may not be applicable to all situations. Emotion regulation choice refers to the process by which individuals choose different regulation strategies in different contexts. Executive control and the level of engagement-disengagement considerations are the cognitive mechanisms of emotion regulation choice, while the neural mechanisms of emotion regulation choice still need to be explored more directly and deeply. Studies have found that affective, cognitive, and motivational factors have different degrees of influence on emotion regulation choice. However, there is still a lack of a reliable framework to systematically investigate the relationship between these influences and the outcome of their combined effect on emotion regulation choices. Future research needs to further explore the neurophysiological basis of emotion regulation choice by using different techniques and constructing a complete model based on multiple factors to more accurately grasp the dynamic process of emotion regulation choice.

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“…At the individual level, cognitive flexibility is a general cognitive tendency, which means people have the consciousness, willingness, and efficacy to make flexible choices in any situation ( Martin and Rubin, 1995 ). Studies have found that people with high cognitive flexibility are more able to effectively use multiple emotional regulation strategies ( Gao et al, 2021 ), while people with better emotional regulation ability are more able to reduce the impact of other’s emotions on themselves ( Eisenberg and Fabes, 1992 ; Lockwood et al, 2013 ). At the same time, cognitively flexible people experienced lower levels of depression after adverse events ( Wang and Liu, 2017 ).…”

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Cognitive flexibility as a protective factor for empathy

Cai

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Although cognitive flexibility has always been considered essential to empathy, the relevant findings have been inconsistent. Inconsistent results may be because cognitive flexibility is a multi-level structure, while empathy is also a multilayer structure, and there are differences in how researchers define and measure cognitive flexibility. Therefore, the study explores the relationship between cognitive flexibility and empathy from a multi-dimensional perspective. This study involved 105 China students aged between 18 and 22 (M age = 20.26, SD = 2.00) who completed the Cognitive Flexibility Scale (cognitive flexibility trait, cognitive flexibility at the individual level), perspective-switching flexibility task (perspective-switching flexibility, cognitive flexibility at the cognitive level), the Interpersonal Reactivity Index scale (IRI, traits empathy), Multi-dimensional Empathy Test (state empathy), 2-back task (inhibitory control), and Stroop task (working memory). After controlling for additional variables, the results showed that: (1) Cognitive flexibility traits negatively predicted trait cognitive (IRI-PT) and affective empathy (IRI-EC). (2) The Other/Self perspective-switching flexibility negatively predicted the affective component of state empathy. (3) Cognitive flexibility traits and Other/Self perspective-switching flexibility negatively predicted empathy even after controlling for one of these. The study’s results suggested that cognitive flexibility negatively predicts empathy and is a protective factor for reducing the cost of empathy and promoting emotion regulation.

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Mindfulness intervention improves executive functions of depressed individuals and their neural mechanism

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Ding²,

Zhu³

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Chin. Sci. Bull.

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The use and change of emotion regulation strategies: The promoting effect of cognitive flexibility

Abstract: The progress of emotion regulation methods and paradigms: From voluntary emotion regulation to automatic emotion regulation

Cited by 5 publications

References 31 publications

Distract or Reappraise? The Mechanism of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Choice and Its Influential Factors

Distract or Reappraise? The Mechanism of Cognitive Emotion Regulation Choice and Its Influential Factors

Cognitive flexibility as a protective factor for empathy

Mindfulness intervention improves executive functions of depressed individuals and their neural mechanism

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