Emotional reactivity refers to how sensitive or responsive a person is to their emotions. It means that someone may react strongly or quickly to their feelings, whether positive or negative.
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The loss of neuromodulation that is at the core of PTSD leads to intensification
of emotional reactivity in general: traumatized people go immediately from stimulus to response without being able to make the intervening psychological assessment of the cause of their arousal, which causes them to overreact and intimidate others.
It also suggests that increased dispositional mindfulness may act as a protective factor against the effects of
negative emotional reactivity by neuroticism.
In addition to their ability to maintain sensitivity to unexpected events against a background of expected stressors, Novel rats also exhibit
reduced emotional reactivity measured in the open field (11, 22), enhanced HPA negative feedback control as indicated by a greater CORT suppression of hippocampal field potentials (23), and a reduced basal CORT concentration (13).
Family coaching focuses on the «doing», changing oneself in one's significant emotional relationships, as well as the «being», maintaining a sense of self - differentiation in the face of
high emotional reactivity.
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).
Inflexibility is a common and often serious problem in marital negotiating, and this is especially so when it is accompanied
by emotional reactivity on either side of that spectrum.
Volume 6, 4 (8/12)-- Wellspring Institute founder, Rick Hanson
on emotional reactivity and methods to find stillness and peace of mind.
For example, maternal depression and PTSD were associated with
increased emotional reactivity and aggressive behavior problems in their preschool children [39].
«So meditation, or mindfulness practice, it's really about, to me,
decreasing emotional reactivity so you can proactively create your day and create your life; versus, just being a walking reflex that sometimes screws up,» Ferriss said.
Having a television in the bedroom was associated with sleep problems and
less emotional reactivity at 5.5 years but was not associated with social skills.
The study, conducted by Francesca Filbey, Ph.D., Director of Cognitive Neuroscience Research of Addictive Behaviors at the Center for BrainHealth and her colleagues, shows that risk - taking teens exhibit hyperconnectivity between the amygdala, a center responsible
for emotional reactivity, and specific areas of the prefrontal cortex associated with emotion regulation and critical thinking skills.
Regression models revealed that both internalizing and externalizing YSR scores, as well
as emotional reactivity coping scores, independently contributed to explain variability of HbA1C values.
Greater ability to take «I» positions in relationships, along with
lower emotional reactivity (ER) and attachment anxiety, were unique predictors of effortful control.
Anxious youth exhibit
heightened emotional reactivity, particularly to social - evaluative threat, such as peer evaluation and feedback, compared to non-anxious youth.
Additionally, those youth higher in self - blame and depressive affect were more likely to transmit
emotional reactivity from friendships to romantic relationships.
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Greater emotional reactivity in women may explain many things, such as their being twice as likely to suffer from depression and anxiety disorders compared to men,» Mendrek added, who is also an associate professor at the University of Montreal's Department of Psychiatry.
The reason is that people low on positive emotion differentiation not only have increased levels of positive emotional reactivity [48], but that they also react more strongly to the positive emotions they experience [21].
It may not be remembered or suppressed from consciousness, but it still
impacts emotional reactivity and emotional functioning through the body.
Moreover, normative developmental changes during the transition into adolescence may
exacerbate emotional reactivity to peer negative events, particularly for anxious youth.
Parenting behavior and affect was observed during a social - evaluative laboratory speech task for youth, and ecological momentary assessment (EMA) methods were used to examine
youth emotional reactivity to typical daily negative events within peer and non-peer contexts.
9) Regular meditation practice enhances executive functioning and weakens
limbic emotional reactivity, thus enabling you to shorten time periods of negative reactivity and shift back to your emotional baseline more quickly.
My secrets of online dating success will teach you how to sort through a large number of guys quickly, with
minimal emotional reactivity in order to meet the good prospects.
Research from the American Psychological Association shows that mindfulness helps to reduce stress, rumination and
emotional reactivity while improving memory, focus, cognitive flexibility and relationship satisfaction.
The fact that too
fast emotional reactivity can lead to destabilization, shows that reflecting each other's moods is not enough for a stable relationship: a certain time range is necessary for compound emotions to form.
If emotional overwhelm is fueling
strong emotional reactivity that is making you miserable, you are likely dealing with emotional vulnerability.
Ruminative and Reflective Forms of Self - Focus: Their Relationships with Interpersonal Skills and
Emotional Reactivity under Interpersonal Stress.
These missiles that are launched almost always occur when the cycle is spinning so fast, that the centrifugal force of both people's
emotional reactivity throws them to the extreme edge of their experience.
Costs also typically increase significantly
when emotional reactivity is enacted by partners in ways that sabotage your reaching an agreement.
The current pilot study examined the impact of comorbid internalizing disorders and comorbid Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) on emotion regulation in children with ADHD by measuring RSA as an indicator of
dysregulated emotional reactivity.
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