Emotion regulation in action: emotional reactivity in experiential avoidance |
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Authors: | Sloan Denise M |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, Weiss Hall, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122, USA. dsloan@temple.edu |
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Abstract: | The present study examined the relationship between emotional reactivity (self-report and physiological reactivity) to pleasant, unpleasant, and neutral emotion-eliciting stimuli and experiential avoidance (EA). Sixty-two participants were separated into high and low experiential avoiders. Results indicated that high EA participants reported greater emotional experience to both unpleasant and pleasant stimuli compared to low EA participants. In contrast to their heightened reports of emotion, high EA participants displayed attenuated heart rate reactivity to the unpleasant stimuli relative to the low EA participants. These findings are interpreted as reflecting an emotion regulation attempt by high EA participants when confronted with unpleasant emotionally-evocative stimuli. |
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Keywords: | Emotional avoidance Emotion regulation Heart rate Facial EMG |
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