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Psychophysiological Assessment of the Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Strategies in Childhood
Published on: February 11, 2017
Team sport as a potential context for interpersonal emotion regulation in early adolescence: a quasi-experimental
Xilin Li1, Qiuping You1, Yunfei Tao1
1School of Sport Training, Chengdu Sport University, Chengdu, China.
Objective:
Emotion regulation deficits are a transdiagnostic risk factor for adolescent emotional disorders. This quasi-experimental study examined whether different exercise contexts were associated with intrapersonal and interpersonal emotion regulation in early adolescents.
Methods:
A quasi-experimental cluster-allocated design was conducted with 114 sixth-grade students from three intact classes, with each class allocated to one of three conditions: team exercise, individual exercise, or control condition. Participants completed measures of emotion regulation at pre-test, mid-test, and post-test during an 8-week intervention.
Results:
Team exercise was associated with a significantly different trajectory of interpersonal emotion regulation over time compared with individual exercise and control conditions, with the team exercise group showing a more favorable pattern of change. Changes in expressive suppression showed a small negative association with changes in interpersonal emotion regulation.
Conclusion:
Team-based cooperative exercise may provide a potentially relevant context for supporting interpersonal emotion regulation in early adolescents, although the association involving expressive suppression should be interpreted cautiously given the low reliability of this subscale.
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