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ORIGINAL RESEARCH article

Front. Psychol.
Sec. Emotion Science
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1400223
This article is part of the Research Topic Exploring the Emotional Landscape: Cutting-Edge Technologies for Emotion Assessment and Elicitation View all 9 articles

Emotion regulation use in daily-life and its association with success of emotion-regulation, self-efficacy, stress and state rumination

Provisionally accepted
Isabell Int-Veen Isabell Int-Veen 1*Magdalena Volz Magdalena Volz 2Agnes M. Kroczek Agnes M. Kroczek 1Andreas J. Fallgatter Andreas J. Fallgatter 1,3,4Ann-Christine Ehlis Ann-Christine Ehlis 1,3,4Julian A. Rubel Julian A. Rubel 2David Rosenbaum David Rosenbaum 1
  • 1 Tübingen Center for Mental Health (TüCMH), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, Tübingen, Germany
  • 2 Psychotherapy Research Lab, Psychology and Sport Sciences, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Giessen, Germany, Giessen, Germany
  • 3 German Center for Mental Health (DZPG), Tübingen, Germany
  • 4 LEAD Graduate School and Research Network, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

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    Investigations on emotion regulation strategies (ERS) primarily focus on the influence of instructed emotion regulation (ER) on outcomes. However, recent work has shown that selection of ERS is dependent on e.g. situational demands and personal resources. In this current investigation, we used an online diary to investigate ERS used by free choice and their association with ER-success, stress and rumination. We identified 4 factors of ERS: cognitive perspective change, cognitive-behavioral problem-solving, suppression-distraction and bodysocial ERS. Associations of ERS with stress, state-rumination and ER-success were investigated using multilevel-mixed-models, allowing to separate within-and between-subject effects. Our results show that, on a within-subject level, all adaptive ERS were positively associated with ER-success, while maladaptive ERS as well as higher stress and staterumination were negatively associated with ER-success. On the other hand, only withinsubject cognitive ERS were associated with higher self-efficacy. Maladaptive ERS-use was consequently positively associated with stress and state rumination. Surprisingly, only cognitive perspective change ERS were negatively associated with state rumination.Cognitive-behavioral problem-solving was positively associated with stress and success of emotion regulation. We interpret these results in the light of situational constraints of ERS-use and the importance of the assessment of these in future studies.

    Keywords: Ecological Momentary Assessment, rumination, stress, Emotion Regulation, Daily diary

    Received: 13 Mar 2024; Accepted: 01 Oct 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Int-Veen, Volz, Kroczek, Fallgatter, Ehlis, Rubel and Rosenbaum. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Isabell Int-Veen, Tübingen Center for Mental Health (TüCMH), Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University Hospital of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, Tübingen, Germany

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