Socioemotional Dynamics of Emotion Regulation and Depressive Symptoms: A Person‐Specific Network Approach
Year: 2018
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Socioemotional processes engaged in daily life may afford and/or constrain individuals' emotion regulation in ways that affect psychological health. Recent findings from experience sampling studies suggest that persistence of negative emotions (emotion inertia), the strength of relations among an individual's negative emotions (density of the emotion network), and cycles of negative/aggressive interpersonal transactions are related to psychological health. Using multiple bursts of intensive experience sampling data obtained from 150 persons over one year, person-specific analysis, and impulse response analysis, this study quantifies the complex and interconnected socioemotional processes that surround individuals' daily social interactions and on-going regulation of negative emotion in terms of recovery time. We also examine how this measure of regulatory inefficiency is related to interindividual differences and intraindividual change in level of depressive symptoms. Individuals with longer recovery times had higher overall level of depressive symptoms. As well, during periods where recovery time of sadness was longer than usual, individuals' depressive symptoms were also higher than usual, particularly among individuals who experienced higher overall level of stressful life events. The findings and analysis highlight the utility of a person-specific network approach to study emotion regulation, how regulatory processes change over time, and potentially how planned changes in the configuration of individuals' systems may contribute to psychological health.
Source: Complexity
DOI: 10.1155/2018/5094179
Language: English
Subfield: Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $2,760
Funders: National Science Foundation, University of Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania State University, National Institutes of Health, Social Science Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, National Institute on Aging, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences, Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Awards: G1826566369, G2139692950, G2258733683, G388112773, G3945010249, ARRA: Tools for Articulating Within-Person Dynamic Models of Interpersonal Intera, G5081904548, Toward a Unifying Model of Self-Regulation and its Development, G5495163659, G6355789091, G7184555466, Population Research Institute, G7517055567, Phase II I/UCRC Pennsylvania State University Site: Center for Health Organization Transformation, Psychosocial Determinants and Biological Pathways to Healthy Aging (Pathways), Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, The Population Research Institute, Prevention and Methodology Training
OpenAlex ID: W2900691702