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  • Clinical psychology
  • Emotion regulation research

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  • Emotions significantly influence psychological functioning and well-being.
  • The 'three-circle' model categorizes emotions into threat, drive, and soothing systems.
  • Imbalances in these systems are linked to various mental and physical disorders.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To address the lack of tools for quantifying affect regulation system activation.
  • To develop a novel index measuring the activation of threat, drive, and soothing systems.

Main Methods:

  • Three expert panels (researchers and clinicians, N=70) evaluated discrete emotions.
  • Experts estimated the activation level of each affect regulation system for discrete emotions.
  • Data informed the creation of a continuous scoring index.

Main Results:

  • High inter-expert agreement was achieved in mapping emotions to affect regulation systems.
  • Experts consistently estimated the degree of system activation for various emotions.
  • These findings form the basis for the Emotions-Affect Systems ELicitation Index (EASEL-3).

Conclusions:

  • The EASEL-3 index offers a quantitative measure for the three affect regulation systems.
  • It holds potential for research and clinical settings to assess emotion regulation.
  • EASEL-3 may aid in characterizing clinical populations and personalizing interventions.