Trait acceptance predicts fewer daily negative emotions through less stressor-related rumination.

Catalino, Lahnna I.; Arenander, Justine; Epel, Elissa S.; Puterman, Eli

doi:10.1037/emo0000279

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“…Another aim of our supplementary analyses was to explore whether a reduced tendency to ruminate about emotions might represent a potential mechanism through which NED exerts its stress-buffering effect. In line with previous findings on the deleterious effect of daily rumination on affect (e.g., Puterman et al, 2010;Catalino et al, 2017), the within-person link between daily stress and calmness in the evening was more negative on days on which individuals ruminated about their emotions. Lower daily NED predicted a higher tendency to ruminate about emotions, thus providing support for a strategy selection effect of NED (Kalokerinos et al, 2019).…”

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Negative Emotion Differentiation Attenuates the Within-Person Indirect Effect of Daily Stress on Nightly Sleep Quality Through Calmness

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The ability to differentiate between negative emotional states [negative emotion differentiation (NED)] has been conceptualized as a trait that facilitates effective emotion regulation and buffers stress reactivity. In the present research, we investigated the role of NED in within-person processes of daily affect regulation and coping during times of stress (the first COVID-19-related pandemic lockdown in April 2020). Using intensive longitudinal data, we analyzed whether daily stress had an indirect effect on sleep quality through calmness in the evening, and we tested whether NED moderated this within-person indirect effect by buffering the link between daily stress and calmness in the evening. A non-representative community sample (n = 313, 15–82 years old) participated in a 21-day ambulatory assessment with twice-daily surveys. The results of multilevel mediation models showed that higher daily stress was related to within-day change in calmness from morning to evening, resulting in less calmness in the evening within persons. Less calmness in the evening, in turn, was related to poorer nightly sleep quality within persons. As expected, higher NED predicted a less negative within-person link between daily stress and calmness in the evening, thereby attenuating the indirect effect of daily stress on nightly sleep quality through calmness. This effect held when we controlled for mean negative emotions and depression. The results provide support for a diathesis-stress model of NED, and hence, for NED as a protective factor that helps to explain why some individuals remain more resilient during times of stress than others.

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confidence: 91%

Negative Emotion Differentiation Attenuates the Within-Person Indirect Effect of Daily Stress on Nightly Sleep Quality Through Calmness

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“…We have studied the life events, daily stressors and perceived stress responses of caregiving mothers of children with an autism spectrum disorder (a chronic stressor) and mothers of neurotypical children over 3 weeks, each week separated by nine months. This included roughly 180 women, described elsewhere (Catalino et al, 2017; Felder et al, 2017).…”

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More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science

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Mayer

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Frontiers in Neuroendocrinology

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Stress can influence health throughout the lifespan, yet there is little agreement about what types and aspects of stress matter most for human health and disease. This is in part because "stress" is not a monolithic concept but rather, an emergent process that involves interactions between individual and environmental factors, historical and current events, allostatic states, and psychological and physiological reactivity. Many of these processes alone have been labeled as "stress." Stress science would be further advanced if researchers adopted a common conceptual model that incorporates epidemiological, affective, and psychophysiological perspectives, with more precise language for describing stress measures. We articulate an integrative working model, highlighting how stressor exposures across the life course influence habitual responding and stress reactivity, and how health behaviors interact with stress. We offer a Stress Typology articulating timescales for stress measurement - acute, event-based, daily, and chronic - and more precise language for dimensions of stress measurement.

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“…, 2015 ). Moreover, self-reported acceptance may positively influence perceived daily stress ( Catalino et al. , 2017 ) and is associated with better mental health outcomes ( Aldao et al ., 2010 ; Berking and Wupperman, 2012 ).…”

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Neurobiological models of emotion regulation: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of acceptance as an emotion regulation strategy

Messina

Grecucci

Viviani

2021

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

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Emotional acceptance is an important emotion regulation strategy promoted by most psychotherapy approaches. We adopted the Activation Likelihood Estimation technique to obtain a quantitative summary of previous fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging) studies of acceptance and test different hypotheses on its mechanisms of action. The main meta-analysis included 13 experiments contrasting acceptance to control conditions, yielding a total of 422 subjects and 170 foci of brain activity. Additionally, subgroups of studies with different control conditions (react naturally or focus on emotions) were identified and analysed separately. Our results showed executive areas to be affected by acceptance only in the subgroup of studies in which acceptance was compared to natural reactions. In contrast, a cluster of decreased brain activity located in the posterior cingulate cortex (PCC)/precuneus was associated with acceptance regardless of the control condition. These findings suggest that high-level executive cortical processes are not a distinctive feature of acceptance, whereas functional deactivations in the PCC/precuneus constitute its specific neural substrate. The neuroimaging of emotional acceptance calls into question a key tenet of current neurobiological models of emotion regulation consisting in the necessary involvement of high-level executive processes to actively modify emotional states, suggesting a complementary role for limbic portions of the default system.

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Trait acceptance predicts fewer daily negative emotions through less stressor-related rumination.

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Negative Emotion Differentiation Attenuates the Within-Person Indirect Effect of Daily Stress on Nightly Sleep Quality Through Calmness

Negative Emotion Differentiation Attenuates the Within-Person Indirect Effect of Daily Stress on Nightly Sleep Quality Through Calmness

More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science

Neurobiological models of emotion regulation: a meta-analysis of neuroimaging studies of acceptance as an emotion regulation strategy

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