Should We Learn First to Up-Regulate our Positive Emotions or to Down-Regulate ourNegative Ones? Comparative Benefits of Three Interventions
(2013) Third World Congress on Positive Psychology — Location: Los Angeles (27.June.2013)
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- Research has long demonstrated the importance of the ability to down-regulate negative emotions to promote psychological and physical well-being, as well as to maintain fulfilling social and marital relationships. More recently, research has highlighted the importance of (not just low negative affect, but also) positive emotions to increase subjective happiness, somatic adjustment and to sustain flourishing relationships. As these two types of emotion regulation strategies share common benefits, the question of their relative efficacy can be risen. In order to increase psychological, physical and social adjustment, is it preferable to decrease the frequency/intensity/duration of negative emotions or to increase frequency/intensity/duration of positive ones? The present study aims at answering this question. In order to compare benefits of those types of emotion regulation on psychological, somatic and social well-being, we randomized 150 subjects in four conditions (positive emotion up-regulation VS negative emotions down- regulation VS positive and negative emotion regulation VS control). Each experimental group followed a 18-hours program in order to learn how to regulate their emotions. As the study is still in progress, results will be discussed at the conference.
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Weytens, F., Luminet, O., & Mikolajczak, M. (2013). Should We Learn First to Up-Regulate our Positive Emotions or to Down-Regulate ourNegative Ones? Comparative Benefits of Three Interventions. Third World Congress on Positive Psychology, Los Angeles. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/201286