Comparison of different strategies to decrease negative affect and increase positive affect in women with borderline
Gitta A Jacob1, Julie Arendt, Lisa Kolley
1Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany. gitta.jacob@uniklinik-freiburg.de
Background:
In this study we compared the effect of different emotion regulation strategies on positive and negative emotions in patients with borderline personality disorder.
Methods:
Emotion regulation strategies were a distracting task, individual positive memory imagery, individual soothing imagery, and a neutral comparison condition. During two separate sessions, 17 participants watched either neutral or negative movie segments before using these strategies.
Results:
All three strategies influenced emotions into a favorable direction as compared to the neutral comparison condition. The positive memory image increased positive emotions significantly stronger than counting colors and distracting.
Discussion:
Different strategies seem to have similar effects in decreasing negative emotions. Positive emotions may be affected in particular by positive and soothing imagery techniques.
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