TY - JOUR
T1 - The association between the selection and effectiveness of emotion regulation strategies and psychopathological features
T2 - A daily life study
AU - Houben, M.
AU - Kalokerinos, E.K.
AU - Koval, P.
AU - Erbaş, Y.
AU - Mitchell, J.
AU - Pe, M.L.
AU - Kuppens, P.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Emotion dysregulation is central to psychopathological conditions, including borderline personality disorder (BPD) and depression. However, the nature of emotion-regulation (ER) difficulties in the daily life of people with BPD or depressive features is still unclear. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to disentangle two different ER subprocesses in daily life, (a) selection of ER strategies and (b) the effectiveness of implementing strategies, in terms of their associations with subsequent emotional experience. We analyzed data from a three-wave, longitudinal, experience-sampling study of young adults with varying levels of psychopathological features (N = 202). BPD features were uniquely linked to the use but not altered effectiveness of several putatively adaptive and maladaptive ER strategies. Depressive features were uniquely associated with the use of putatively maladaptive strategies. These findings suggest that ER deficits in people with more BPD or depressive features may be primarily located in strategy selection rather than the implementation of those strategies.
AB - Emotion dysregulation is central to psychopathological conditions, including borderline personality disorder (BPD) and depression. However, the nature of emotion-regulation (ER) difficulties in the daily life of people with BPD or depressive features is still unclear. Therefore, in this study, we aimed to disentangle two different ER subprocesses in daily life, (a) selection of ER strategies and (b) the effectiveness of implementing strategies, in terms of their associations with subsequent emotional experience. We analyzed data from a three-wave, longitudinal, experience-sampling study of young adults with varying levels of psychopathological features (N = 202). BPD features were uniquely linked to the use but not altered effectiveness of several putatively adaptive and maladaptive ER strategies. Depressive features were uniquely associated with the use of putatively maladaptive strategies. These findings suggest that ER deficits in people with more BPD or depressive features may be primarily located in strategy selection rather than the implementation of those strategies.
KW - borderline personality disorder features
KW - daily life
KW - depressive features
KW - emotion-regulation strategies
KW - implementation
KW - negative emotion
KW - selection
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UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85175080608&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1177/21677026231203662
DO - 10.1177/21677026231203662
M3 - Article
SN - 2167-7026
JO - Clinical Psychological Science
JF - Clinical Psychological Science
ER -