The situational test of emotional flexibility: The expert's consensus on the emotion regulation strategy effectiveness
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2024
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inScience Press : Lisabon
ISBN
978-989-35106-6-7
ISSN
2184-2205
2184-3414
2184-3414
Abstrakt
The ability to effectively regulate emotions has emerged as an important protective factor for mental health. Current research provides insights into the maladaptive/adaptive nature of the selected emotion regulation strategies (e.g., cognitive reappraisal, suppression of emotion expression). The ambiguity of these findings suggests a protective factor of mental health may be an individual's ability to flexibly use different emotion regulation strategies depending on the situation evoking this emotion. However, measuring the flexibility of emotion regulation strategies is problematic due to the lack of measurements. The Situational Test of Emotional Flexibility (STEF) was created by the authors of the study, containing twelve pairs of situation scenarios eliciting three negative emotions (fear, sadness, and anger). Each pair of scenarios takes place in the same situation, changing only one aspect of the situation (e.g., the presence of other people). Participants are asked to consider six emotion regulation strategy effectiveness (acceptance, cognitive reappraisal, rumination, expression of emotion, ignoring, self-compassion) to regulate the evoked emotion for each scenario. STEF allows the assessment of the emotion regulation strategy flexibility in each scenario and also the assessment of the preferred emotion regulation strategy. This paper presents the results of an expert consensus on the effectiveness of six emotion regulation strategies via 24 scenarios. The research sample consisted of 19 experts (4 psychotherapists, 10 counselling/school psychologists, and 5 clinical psychologists) requiring at least five years of practice (M = 11.4 years) who assessed the effectiveness of using six emotion regulation strategies in 24 scenarios evoking fear, sadness, and anger. The results show that from the experts' perspective, self-compassion, expression of emotion, and cognitive reappraisal were the most effective emotion regulation strategies for all negative emotions. Ignoring emotion and rumination were the least effective strategies for all of them. The rank order of the effectiveness of the strategies showed slight differences separately for each emotion: anger, sadness, and fear. We discuss the results regarding the adaptive nature of emotion regulation strategies.
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In: Psychological application and trends 2024. 1. vyd. Lisabon : inScience Press, 2024. ISBN 978-989-35106-6-7. ISSN 2184-2205. Pp. 377-379.
Kľúčové slová
flexibilita, flexibility, emócie, emotions, odborné posúdenie
Výstup z projektu
VEGA 1/0569/22 Emočná flexibilita: stratégie regulácie emócií v meniacich sa podmienkach ako protektívne faktory psychického zdravia
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