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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
Emotion regulation and emotion coherence: evidence for strategy-specific effects
Elise S Dan-Glauser1, James J Gross
1Department of Psychology.
Emotion (Washington, D.C.)
|June 5, 2013
Summary
Emotion regulation strategies like suppression reduce the coordination between emotional experiences, behaviors, and physiological responses. Acceptance, however, does not significantly alter this emotion coherence.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Neuroscience
- Cognitive Science
Background:
- Emotion theory posits that emotions involve coordinated experiential, behavioral, and physiological changes.
- The impact of emotion regulation on this response coherence remains under-explored.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how different emotion regulation strategies affect the coherence of emotional responses.
- To differentiate the effects of suppression versus acceptance on emotion coherence.
Main Methods:
- Participants viewed negative and positive images while experiential, behavioral, and physiological responses were recorded.
- Cross-correlation analyses quantified the coherence between these response domains.
- Two studies examined expressive suppression, physiological suppression, multichannel suppression, and acceptance.
Main Results:
- Both expressive and physiological suppression strategies significantly decreased emotion response coherence.
- Multichannel suppression also reduced emotion coherence.
- Acceptance did not significantly alter emotion coherence compared to an unregulated condition.
Conclusions:
- Emotion regulation strategies differentially impact emotion response coherence.
- Suppression weakens the coordination across emotion domains, while acceptance does not.
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