The associations of emotion regulation and dysregulation with the metabolic syndrome factor
Marja-Liisa Kinnunen1, Marja Kokkonen, Jaakko Kaprio
1Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35, FIN-40014, Jyväskylä, Finland. marja-liisa.kinnunen@psyka.jyu.fi
Objective:
Emotion regulation has been associated with good, and dysregulation with poor subjective health; but it is unclear if emotion regulation is related to metabolic syndrome.
Methods:
Associations between the metabolic syndrome factor (systolic and diastolic blood pressure, waist circumference, high-density lipoprotein, triglycerides, and glucose), emotion regulation (the strategies of repair and maintenance, self-perceived emotion regulation) and dysregulation (emotional ambivalence); and subjective health (self-rated health and psychosomatic symptoms) were studied using a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach. The participants (96 women, 85 men) were drawn from the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Personality and Social Development (JYLS).
Results:
High repair was associated directly to the low metabolic syndrome factor, while high maintenance, high self-perceived emotion regulation, and low emotional ambivalence were related indirectly to the low metabolic syndrome factor through good subjective health.
Conclusions:
Successful emotion regulation may have an association not only with the subjective experience of health, but also with physiological regulation systems, leading to a reduced risk for metabolic syndrome.
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