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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- Sustains problem-solving
- Sustains reappraisal efforts
- 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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- Interferes with problem-solving and reappraisal
- 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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- Problem-solving becomes irrelevant - hopelessness, can’t do it on own
- Shift attention towards threat/distress indicators- hyper vigilant to changes in body and physiological aspect of emotions
- Negative thoughts/memories closely linked
- 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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- Socioaffective needs: basic comfort and support from other people
- Cognitive needs: persons need to organize what happened to them, might involve reappraisal, recreate meaning from even so able to move forward
- 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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- Habitual supression used less frequently by those endorsing Western European values (vs. bi cultural Asian-European values)
- Suppression positively correlated with self-protective social goals, among those with European values
- Suppression was negatively correlated with self-protected social goals, among those with bi cultural values.
- Individuals who had stronger European values the greater the suppression associated with more negative emotions