Volume 6, 4 (8/12)-- Wellspring Institute founder, Rick Hanson
on emotional reactivity and methods to find stillness and peace of mind.
I need to work
on my emotional reactivity so that I show you and our kids better ways to express unpleasant thoughts or feelings.
Not exact matches
Mindfulness meditation helps focus
on the present moment as well as various positive psychological effects, including reduced psychological symptoms and
emotional reactivity.
It is a volatile beast that is driven from human emotion, and human beings vary in their
emotional reactivity to specific events, especially when their money is
on the line.
Topics were tailored in response to the specific concerns of burden, physical / practical concerns,
emotional reactivity, self - needs and social support endorsed by Singaporean caregivers
on the Caregiver Quality of Life Index - Cancer (CQOLC) in the study mentioned earlier.38 The content of each session is described here:
A lack of consensus remains
on the boundary between temperamental variation in
emotional reactivity and
emotional psychopathology and how to differentiate these constructs.
Specifically, negative
emotional reactivity has been found to predict both internalizing problems (e.g., anxiety, depression) and externalizing problems (e.g., aggression, rule - breaking).1 Fearfulness predicts internalizing problems, and self - regulation difficulties predict externalizing problems.1 The large literature
on parenting2 generally shows that high levels of warm and firm parenting are associated with positive child development.4
Children's temperament is often defined as biologically - based differences in
reactivity and self - regulation.1 Research has focused most
on temperament dimensions of self - regulation or effortful control, general positive
emotional reactivity, general negative
emotional reactivity, and more specific aspects of negative emotionality reflecting fearfulness and inhibition
on the one hand, and anger and irritability
on the other hand.
Based
on studies conducted so far, findings suggest that child positive
emotional reactivity, fearfulness, and self - regulation elicit warmth from parents, whereas child negative
emotional reactivity results in more negative parental control.
It then becomes a process of decreasing
emotional reactivity in the marital dyad to help create safety and stability, working
on self - differentiation with each spouse individually, and addressing the most intense extended family triangles.
Having done so, and then continued with private family systems coaching, I've experienced the anxiety and avoidance, the
emotional impasses and seemingly immovable triangles, and the negative
reactivity and pushback of working
on self - differentiation in my own family of origin.
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.
Consequently I've experienced the anxiety and avoidance, the
emotional impasses and seemingly immovable triangles, and the negative
reactivity and pushback of working
on self - differentiation in my own family of origin.
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.
It is the capacity to think clearly in the face of
emotional reactivity, the capacity to address life's stressors, to focus
on the self and not others, and to take responsibility for the
emotional processes in one's own life.
Over time, these situations begin to weigh
on you and can lead to a plethora of unhealthy patterns filled with resentment, anger, passive - aggressiveness,
emotional reactivity, a deep feeling of emptiness, disconnection, lack of empathy, hopelessness and a general, underlying sense of anxiety and / or depression.
Thus, the effect of individual vulnerabilities (depressive affect, social anxiety, self - blame, and coping efficacy problems)
on the transmission of
emotional reactivity in response to conflict from family to peers (friends and romantic partners) was prospectively examined across six waves of data in a community - based sample of 416 adolescents (Mage Wave 1 = 11.90, 51 % girls).
On the whole, results indicated that spouses had similar levels of differentiation on two scales: emotional cutoff and I - position, while women reported higher levels of emotional reactivity and fusion with other
On the whole, results indicated that spouses had similar levels of differentiation
on two scales: emotional cutoff and I - position, while women reported higher levels of emotional reactivity and fusion with other
on two scales:
emotional cutoff and I - position, while women reported higher levels of
emotional reactivity and fusion with others.
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.
Findings inform our understanding of parenting influences
on anxious youth's
emotional reactivity to developmentally salient negative events during the transition into adolescence.
and is quoted frequently in internationally publications regarding her expertise
on relationships, addiction and
emotional reactivity.
The results support Bernstein and Claypool's severity hypothesis [86]
on the direction of
emotional reactivity, which contends that ostracism increases subsequent arousal.
This definition emphasizes the importance of more sensitive, responsive, supportive and intellectually stimulating parenting or mature parenting focusing
on cognitive, conscious, voluntary control rather than
emotional, prompt, involuntary
emotional reactivity to environmental stimuli in caregivers.
In sum, the results suggest sex - specific and more complex influences of OT
on sympathetic and
emotional reactivity in human pair - bonds than might be suggested by the neuropeptide's advertisement and perception in the public domain.
Biological sensitivity to context: The interactive effects of stress
reactivity and family adversity
on socio —
emotional behavior and school readiness