Emotion beliefs and emotion regulation strategy use

IF 3.5 2区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL

Personality and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.paid.2025.113066

Tylah E. Johnston , James J. Gross , Wai Chen , Peter McEvoy , Rodrigo Becerra , David A. Preece

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Abstract

Emotion regulation is essential for mental health, and it is thus important to understand the factors influencing emotion regulation. One such factor is thought to be beliefs about emotions; however, there is presently limited data testing this. The aim of this study was therefore to comprehensively examine the links between beliefs about emotions (specifically, the controllability and usefulness of emotions) and people's usage of a wide range of emotion regulation strategies. Participants (N = 579, M_age = 22.69 years, 75.10 % female) completed psychometric self-report measures of emotion beliefs and emotion regulation strategy use. Correlation analyses revealed stronger beliefs about emotions being uncontrollable or useless were significantly associated with lesser use of adaptive emotion regulation strategies, and greater use of some maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. Latent profile analysis revealed seven profiles, each varying in their levels of maladaptive emotion beliefs and emotion regulation strategy use. Profiles with more maladaptive beliefs were generally associated with lower use of adaptive and higher use of maladaptive emotion regulation strategies. Overall, our findings suggest associations between maladaptive emotion beliefs and maladaptive patterns in emotion regulation. This highlights the potential importance of considering emotion beliefs in the conceptualisation and treatment of emotion regulation problems and emotional disorders.

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情绪调节对心理健康至关重要，因此了解影响情绪调节的因素非常重要。其中一个因素被认为是对情绪的信念；然而，目前对此进行测试的数据有限。因此，本研究旨在全面考察有关情绪的信念（特别是情绪的可控性和有用性）与人们使用各种情绪调节策略之间的联系。参与者（人数 = 579，年龄 = 22.69 岁，75.10% 为女性）完成了情绪信念和情绪调节策略使用的心理自我报告测量。相关分析表明，较强的情绪不可控制或无用的信念与较少使用适应性情绪调节策略和较多使用某些适应性不良情绪调节策略有显著关联。潜特征分析显示了七种特征，每种特征的适应不良情绪信念和情绪调节策略的使用程度各不相同。具有更多适应不良情绪信念的人一般使用较少的适应不良情绪调节策略，而使用较多的适应不良情绪调节策略的人一般使用较多的适应不良情绪调节策略。总之，我们的研究结果表明，适应不良的情绪信念与适应不良的情绪调节模式之间存在关联。这凸显了在情绪调节问题和情绪障碍的概念化和治疗中考虑情绪信念的潜在重要性。

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Personality and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, SOCIAL-

CiteScore

8.50

自引率

4.70%

发文量

577

审稿时长

41 days

期刊介绍： Personality and Individual Differences is devoted to the publication of articles (experimental, theoretical, review) which aim to integrate as far as possible the major factors of personality with empirical paradigms from experimental, physiological, animal, clinical, educational, criminological or industrial psychology or to seek an explanation for the causes and major determinants of individual differences in concepts derived from these disciplines. The editors are concerned with both genetic and environmental causes, and they are particularly interested in possible interaction effects.