The tendency for emotions to be predictable over time, labelled emotional inertia, has been linked to low well-being and is thought to reflect impaired emotion regulation. However, almost no studies have examined how emotion regulation relates to emotional inertia. We examined the effects of cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression on the inertia of behavioural, subjective and physiolog...

Theory and research link regulatory focus (RF) in the form of promotion and prevention goal orientation with internalizing symptoms (e.g., anxiety), but the relevant mechanisms are not well understood. This study investigated the role of two emotion regulation (ER) strategies (cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression) as possible mediators. Path analysis using data from 179 healthy youn...

Previous research has suggested that older and younger adults are equally able to regulate their outward expressions of emotion, and that the regulation of emotional expression in younger adults results in decreased memory for the emotional stimulus. The current study examines whether older adults show this same memory effect. Older and younger adults viewed positive and negative emotional pict...

nima yooshij applied various techniques in order to describe diverse poetic subjects. this research deals with analysing the usage of these expressive techniques from two perspectives - poetic and structural. nima applied structural expressive techniques more often than poetic expressive techniques in order to describe various poetic subjects. these techniques include adjectives, adverbs, adjec...

objective: the purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of expressive arts therapy on decreasing anxiety of orphaned girls living in family-like centers of mashhad, iran.  methods: one week prior to final examinations, participants were randomly assigned to either an expressive art-making group or a control group. the state-trait anxiety inventory was administered before and after...

It is often acknowledged that mindfulness facilitates emotion regulation on a long-term scale. Only few empirical studies support the hypothesis that even a brief mindfulness induction among subjects without previous experience of meditation allows an effective reduction of both positive and negative emotions. To the best of our knowledge, this hypothesis has never been tested when comparing mi...

abstract   introduction: one of the most common behavioral problems in children with intellectual disability is physical aggression. physical aggression is described as behaviors such as hitting, kicking, throwing object and threatening with the intent to harm others. physical aggression is related to the different factors such as language skills, which has been examined among intellectually di...

Objective: The purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of expressive arts therapy on decreasing anxiety of orphaned girls living in family-like centers of Mashhad, Iran.  Methods: One week prior to final examinations, participants were randomly assigned to either an expressive art-making group or a control group. The State-trait anxiety inventory was administered before and af...

The purpose of the study was to investigate moderating role emotion management (emotion regulation and emotional intelligence) in relationship between mobbing burnout with two samples (220 nurses 220 engineers). reason use being consistent discussions that employees who have a non-service occupation might also experience burnout. In both samples, intelligence moderated but effect not hypothesiz...

This study examined whether expressive suppression (ES), a maladaptive regulation strategy, was more strongly associated with PTSD diagnosis and symptom clusters in veterans than cognitive reappraisal (CR), an adaptive strategy. In cohort study, 746 participants recruited from VHA facilities completed Clinician Administered Scale-IV, Emotion Regulation Questionnaire, Patient Health Questionnair...