Healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: Personality processes, individual differences, and life span development
Healthy and unhealthy emotion regulation: Personality processes, individual differences, and life span development
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1467-6494.2004.00298.x
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发表时间:
2004-12-01
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5
通讯作者:
Gross, JJ
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作者:
John, OP;Gross, JJ
Individuals regulate their emotions in a wide variety of ways. Are some forms of emotion regulation healthier than others? We focus on two commonly used emotion regulation strategies: reappraisal (changing the way one thinks about a potentially emotion-eliciting event) and suppression (changing the way one responds behaviorally to an emotion-eliciting event). In the first section, we review experimental findings showing that reappraisal has a healthier profile of short-term affective, cognitive, and social consequences than suppression. In the second section, we review individual-difference findings, which show that using reappraisal to regulate emotions is associated with healthier patterns of affect, social functioning, and well-being than is using suppression. In the third section, we consider issues in the development of reappraisal and suppression and provide new evidence for a normative shift toward an increasingly healthy emotion regulation profile during adulthood (i.e., increases in the use of reappraisal and decreases in the use of suppression).