Article 2 - English & John: Emotion Regulation

Question 1

Differences between reappraisal (antecedent-focused regulation strategy)

Answer 1

Reappraisal (Antecedent-Focused Strategy): the regulatory process of
changing one’s viewpoint of an event to alter it’s emotional response

EX. Vicky sad because she broke up with her friend but now sees is an opportunity to work on herself so now shes happy

Effect on Experience of Emotion: decreases both the
experience and expression of target emotion.

Effect on Expression of Emotion: increases emotion
expression, particularly a positive one

Question 2

Cultural differences in the use of these emotion regulation strategies in Western and
East-Asian populations

Answer 2

Suppression is encouraged in East Asian cultures since they want
maintain maintain
harmony amongst each other

Suppression is discouraged in Western cultures due to western culture affirming values of self-expression, freedom, and expression of one’s true inner self.

East Asian culture is more likely to practice
using suppression

Question 3

Differences between suppression and reappraisal in effects on well-being and on relationships (e.g., relationship satisfaction)

Answer 3

Wellbeing: in suppression there are negative social consequences & lower authenticity, which negatively impact of wellbeing

reappraisal : shows neutral results for well-being

suppression-linked to lower relationship status

reappraisal-shows mixed results no significant association with relationship status

Question 4

Reasons for suppression’s negative social consequences–which mediators were examined
and which ones worked?

Why were these examined?

Answer 4

there 2 mediators used was subject inauthenticity & positive emotion expression

positive emotion expression: is not significant negative correlation
not a valuable mediator

subject inauthenticity stems from the incongruence between inner experience and
outward behavior due to suppression interferes with reciprocal self-disclosure and self-verification, impacting relationship quality

stronger in mediating suppression & relationship satisfaction
strong correlation negative mediator
yes, valuable mediator
higher correlation
indirect mediator

Question 5

findings

Answer 5

According to Table 2, the correlation for suppression is significantly linked to lower relationship satisfaction, lower authenticity, and lower expression of positive emotion

suppression has an effect to to lower social functioning, yes to lower authenticity, and nonsignificant to lower positive emotion expression

Question 6

Differences of suppression
(response-focused strategy) in terms of experience and expression of emotions

Answer 6

Suppression (Response-Focused Strategy) - inhibition of an outward
behavior/expression of a triggered emotion (i.e facial, gestural, or verbal expressions like laughs)

ex. my friend and I applied for the same position i did not get it but she did i pretend im happy for her but deep inside i’m sad and a bit envious

Effect on Experience of Emotion: has no direct impact on the
experience of emotion; focuses on behavioral inhibition of
emotion and occurs later in the emotion-generative process

Effect on Expression of Emotion: Reduces both negative and
positive emotion expression