Emotion Regulation: Social/Cultural Perspectives Flashcards

•Relation of emotion regulation to attachment styles •Interpersonal (vs. intrapersonal) emotion regulation •Cultural influences on emotion regulation (specifically the Butler, Lee & Gross 2007 study)

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What does attachment and regulation look like in secure attachment? (Shaver & Mikuliner, 2007)

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  1. Sustains problem-solving
  2. Sustains reappraisal efforts
  3. Little need for suppression
    In general: maintains comfortable, supportive relationships; flexible coping
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What does attachment and regulation look like in avoidant attachment? (Shaver & Mikuliner, 2007)

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  1. Interferes with problem-solving and reappraisal
  2. Often suppress emotions &/or their expressions
    In general: don’t understand their own emotions, inhibit any emotion in congruent with their goal of deactivating attachment system
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What does attachment and regulation look like in anxious attachment? (Shaver & Mikuliner, 2007)

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  1. Problem-solving becomes irrelevant - hopelessness, can’t do it on own
  2. Shift attention towards threat/distress indicators- hyper vigilant to changes in body and physiological aspect of emotions
  3. Negative thoughts/memories closely linked
  4. Intensification vs. Suppression- intensify reactions, i.e., feeling good may not be the ultimate goal getting the attention is
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Why do people share positive emotions? (Rime, 2007)

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Capitalization: positive things are being made more memorable by sharing with other person it becomes more salient and builds upon the memory

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What factors are needed for closure in interpersonal emotional regulation? (Rime, 2007)

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  1. Socioaffective needs: basic comfort and support from other people
  2. Cognitive needs: persons need to organize what happened to them, might involve reappraisal, recreate meaning from even so able to move forward
  3. Action needs: concrete help, perform certain action, doing something is often required for full emotion recovery
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What were the major findings of Butler, Lee, & Gross (2007) study on Emotional Suppression?

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  1. Habitual supression used less frequently by those endorsing Western European values (vs. bi cultural Asian-European values)
  2. Suppression positively correlated with self-protective social goals, among those with European values
  3. Suppression was negatively correlated with self-protected social goals, among those with bi cultural values.
  4. Individuals who had stronger European values the greater the suppression associated with more negative emotions
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