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Area of Science:

  • Psychology
  • Health Sciences
  • Biomedical Research

Background:

  • Affect regulation strategies are linked to disease and mortality.
  • Biological mechanisms underlying these associations are not well understood.
  • Allostatic load serves as a cumulative measure of biological risk.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To assess the longitudinal association between affect regulation strategies and future allostatic load.
  • To investigate the role of affect regulation variability as a measure of regulatory flexibility.
  • To explore potential sex and education-level differences in these associations.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized data from 574 participants in the Midlife in the United States study (2004-2006 and 2017-2021).
  • Assessed nine general and emotion-specific regulatory strategies and their variability using a standard deviation-based algorithm.
  • Measured 24 allostatic load biomarkers and analyzed associations using linear regressions.

Main Results:

  • General affect regulation strategies were not associated with future allostatic load.
  • Greater variability in affect regulation predicted lower allostatic load (β=-0.14).
  • Among more educated participants, anger expression predicted lower allostatic load, while anger control predicted higher allostatic load.

Conclusions:

  • Affect regulation variability and specific anger-related strategies predict allostatic load.
  • These findings suggest flexibility in emotion regulation is key.
  • Further research in diverse populations is warranted.