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Up- and down-regulation of daily emotion: an experience sampling study of Chinese adolescents' regulatory tendency and effects.
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Psychological reports [Psychol Rep] 2013 Oct; Vol. 113 (2), pp. 552-65. - Publication Year :
- 2013
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Abstract
- The present study examined Chinese adolescents' emotion regulatory tendency and its effect, using an Experience Sampling Method. Participants comprised 72 Chinese adolescents (M age = 15.2 yr., SD = 1.7; 36 girls). Momentary emotional experience and regulation was assessed up to 5 or 6 times each day for two weeks. Results showed that participants tended to use up-regulation when they experienced positive emotion and habitually regulated their negative emotion by down-regulation. Also, adolescents who utilized down-regulation in a certain sampling moment reported higher positive emotion at the subsequent sampling moment. Moreover, adolescents who utilized down-regulation more frequently reported higher positive emotion at the subsequent sampling moment. Overall, down-regulation seemed to be a more adaptive regulatory strategy than up-regulation in Chinese adolescents' emotional lives.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0033-2941
- Volume :
- 113
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Psychological reports
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 24597448
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2466/09.10.PR0.113x22z4