Emotion regulation and high social anxiety: spontaneous and instructed use of cognitive reappraisal to regulate anger.

IF 1.9 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY

Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2025-07-31 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2025.2539985

Virginia Tsekova, Avideh Gharehgazlou, Naomi Koerner, Martin M Antony

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Abstract

Background and objectives: Individuals with Social Anxiety Disorder and those high in social anxiety (HSA) experience greater anger difficulties compared to those with low social anxiety (LSA).

Methods: This study examined trait and state anger in individuals with HSA (n = 46) and LSA (n = 45). The study also explored group differences in state and trait cognitive reappraisal and the effectiveness of instructed cognitive reappraisal to regulate state anger among participants with HSA and LSA in response to films containing rejection-salient content.

Results: Participants with HSA, relative to LSA, exhibited greater trait and state anger. The HSA group reported lower trait cognitive reappraisal than the LSA group. However, results revealed no significant group differences in state cognitive reappraisal. Further, both groups exhibited a significant reduction in state anger after receiving instructions to use cognitive reappraisal.

Conclusions: These findings demonstrate that when instructed to use cognitive reappraisal, individuals with HSA were able to do so effectively, and experienced a comparable magnitude in the reduction of state anger as participants with LSA. Implication of these findings are discussed.

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情绪调节和高度社交焦虑：自发和有指导地使用认知重评来调节愤怒。

背景与目的：社交焦虑障碍和高社交焦虑（HSA）个体比低社交焦虑（LSA）个体有更大的愤怒困难。方法：本研究对HSA患者（n = 46）和LSA患者（n = 45）的特质性和状态性愤怒进行了检测。本研究还探讨了状态认知重评和特质认知重评在HSA和LSA被试对含有排斥突出内容的电影的反应中的组间差异，以及指导性认知重评对状态愤怒的调节效果。结果：与LSA相比，HSA参与者表现出更大的特质性和状态性愤怒。HSA组的特质认知重评价低于LSA组。然而，结果显示状态认知重评在组间无显著差异。此外，在接受使用认知重新评估的指示后，两组都表现出状态愤怒的显著减少。结论：这些发现表明，当指示使用认知重评时，HSA个体能够有效地做到这一点，并且在状态愤怒的减少程度上与LSA参与者相当。讨论了这些发现的意义。

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期刊介绍： This journal provides a forum for scientific, theoretically important, and clinically significant research reports and conceptual contributions. It deals with experimental and field studies on anxiety dimensions and stress and coping processes, but also with related topics such as the antecedents and consequences of stress and emotion. We also encourage submissions contributing to the understanding of the relationship between psychological and physiological processes, specific for stress and anxiety. Manuscripts should report novel findings that are of interest to an international readership. While the journal is open to a diversity of articles.