Participants in a control group practiced a different technique known
as cognitive reappraisal, in which they learned to generate fewer negative thoughts.
My children have learned the skills to
use cognitive reappraisal and have learned to set expectations of their reaction to losses in resilient ways.
Half the students were told only to explore their feelings; the other half were asked to engage in full - blown,
positive cognitive reappraisal, to analyze the challenges and opportunities presented by their stressor, and to view their coping strategies in a positive light.
In a 2017 study in the Journal of Biological Rhythms, scientists found that night owls are more likely to suppress their feelings and less likely to
practice cognitive reappraisal (the ability to change the way one thinks about something — to «look on the bright side,» for example) than morning people.
Wald, Nava - Influence of maternal negative emotion reactivity and
cognitive reappraisal on child anxiety disorder (Research Article)
An experimental study on the effectiveness of disclosing stressful life events and support messages:
when cognitive reappraisal support decreases emotional distress, and emotional support is like saying nothing at all.
Research in adults indicates that high IS is linked to greater emotional arousal [38, 39], less alexithymia [40], and, interestingly, also better downregulation of negative affect
via cognitive reappraisal [41].
Considerable research has disclosed
how cognitive reappraisals and the modulation of emotional responses promote successful emotion regulation.
This result is consistent with findings of other studies showing that people who considered emotions as uncontrollable were less likely to use adaptive emotion - regulation strategies, such
as cognitive reappraisal, in their daily lives (Tamir et al., 2007; De Castella et al., 2013).
The degree of reduction in negative emotional reactivity with attentional emotion regulation at post-MBSR is similar to what has been reported
during cognitive reappraisal of NSBs in patients with SAD (Goldin et al., 2009a).
Fortunately, there are new methods for transforming anger through using mindfulness and
cognitive reappraisal.
The technical term for what I am about to teach you is
cognitive reappraisal, which means intentionally changing the way you think and feel about a stressful situation in your life.
Cognitive reappraisal is a strategy that has historically been considered the most effective way to regulate emotions.
A person - by - situation approach to emotion regulation:
Cognitive reappraisal can either help or hurt, depending on the context.
So positive
cognitive reappraisal can help us bounce back, and that may be why parents who use cognitive reappraisal are less likely to engage in counterproductive, over-reactive discipline (Lorber 2012).
Comparing experiential acceptance and
cognitive reappraisal as predictors of functional outcome in individuals with serious mental illness.
4) The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ: Gross & John, 2003) is a 10 - item questionnaire which consists of two scales corresponding to two different emotion regulation strategies:
cognitive reappraisal (6 items; α = 0.88) and expressive suppression (4 items; α = 0.80).
For example, increases in
cognitive reappraisal, which involves logical reasoning, linguistic processing and modification of meaning, has been shown to mediate reduction of SAD symptoms (Goldin et al., 2012).
Cognitive reappraisal and expressive suppression: Links to racial - ethnic discrimination and adjustment among Latino / a and Asian - heritage college students.
The current study examined two emotion regulation strategies,
cognitive reappraisal and affective suppression, in interaction with self - report and biological measures of emotional reactivity as predictors of internalizing symptoms.
A recent fMRI study found a non-linear relationship between age and
cognitive reappraisal (important for emotion regulation) alongside decreased engagement of several brain regions (including several prefrontal areas) during an emotion regulation task, leading to the conclusion that «adolescents may process the emotional value of stimuli differently than either children or adults» (McRae et al. 2012, p. 17).