Regulating emotions with experience - the effectiveness of reappraisal inventiveness depends on situational familiarity.

IF 2.3 3区心理学 Q2 PSYCHIATRY Anxiety Stress and Coping Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Epub Date: 2023-04-19 DOI:10.1080/10615806.2023.2200999

Peter Zeier, Magdalena Sandner, Michèle Wessa

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Background and objectives: Previous research identified cognitive reappraisal as an adaptive emotion regulation strategy. However, theories on emotion regulation flexibility suggest that reappraisal effectiveness (RE) may depend on an individual's familiarity with stressors. In this study, we expect high reappraisal inventiveness (RI), i.e., the generation of many and categorically different reappraisals, to increase RE for individuals with low situational familiarity. Individuals with high situational familiarity, however, would be more effective with low RI.

Design: A total of 148 participants completed the Script-based Reappraisal Task, in which they were presented with fear- and anger-eliciting scripts. Depending on trial type, participants were instructed to reappraise (reappraisal-trial) or react naturally (control-trial) to the scripts. After each trial, participants indicated affective states and reappraisals. We assessed RI and calculated RE-scores as difference between affect ratings in reappraisal- and control-trials for valence and arousal. Finally, participants rated the familiarity with each situation.

Results: The results indicated a significant moderating effect of situational familiarity on the relationship between RI and RE-valence (not RE-arousal). The moderation was mainly driven by a detrimental effect of RI for individuals with high situational familiarity.

Conclusions: Our results hint at the importance of individual experience with emotional content in the research of cognitive reappraisal.

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用经验调节情绪--重评创造性的有效性取决于对情境的熟悉程度。

背景和目的：以往的研究发现，认知再评价是一种适应性情绪调节策略。然而，有关情绪调节灵活性的理论表明，再评价的有效性（RE）可能取决于个体对压力源的熟悉程度。在本研究中，我们预计高重评创造性（RI），即产生多种不同类别的重评，会增加低情景熟悉度个体的情绪调节效果。然而，情景熟悉度高的人使用低RI会更有效：共有 148 名参与者完成了 "基于脚本的再评价任务"，在该任务中，参与者会看到引发恐惧和愤怒的脚本。根据试验类型的不同，参与者被指示对脚本进行再评价（再评价试验）或做出自然反应（控制试验）。每次试验后，参与者都会标明情感状态和重新评价。我们对 RI 进行了评估，并将 RE 分数计算为重新评估试验和对照试验中对情绪和唤醒程度的评价之间的差异。最后，参与者对每种情境的熟悉程度进行评分：结果表明，情境熟悉程度对 RI 与 RE 值（而非 RE唤醒）之间的关系有明显的调节作用。这种调节作用主要是由于对情境熟悉度高的个体的 RI 具有不利影响：我们的研究结果表明，在认知再评价的研究中，个人对情感内容的体验非常重要。

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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.