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Trait Social Anxiety Moderates the Relationship Between Emotion-Regulation Strategy Switching and State Anxiety in
Katharine E Daniel1, Robert G Moulder2, Steven M Boker1
1Department of Psychology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA.
Summary
Socially anxious individuals switch emotion regulation (ER) strategies more frequently during high anxiety but less when anxiety fluctuates. Understanding these patterns can improve ER interventions for social anxiety.
Area of Science:
- Psychology
- Clinical Psychology
- Behavioral Science
Background:
- Emotion dysregulation is linked to difficulties in switching emotion regulation (ER) strategies.
- Empirical research on ER strategy switching in social anxiety is limited.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate the relationship between social anxiety and ER strategy switching patterns.
- To examine how state and trait anxiety influence ER strategy switching.
Main Methods:
- Utilized a novel order-based metric to quantify ER strategy switching.
- Analyzed 12,616 observations from 109 participants over a 5-week ecological momentary assessment study.
- Assessed state and trait anxiety levels and their interaction with ER switching.
Main Results:
- Higher social anxiety correlated with more frequent ER strategy switching during high average state anxiety.
- Individuals with higher social anxiety switched ER strategies less often during periods of high state anxiety variability.
- Anxiety levels and their variability significantly predicted ER strategy switching differences.
Conclusions:
- Interventions could be enhanced by teaching socially anxious individuals to connect ER strategies with anxiety variations.
- Future interventions should consider situational context to improve adaptive ER switching.
- Understanding ER switching dynamics is crucial for addressing emotion dysregulation in social anxiety.
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