Brief report: How rejection sensitivity and advice seeking influence emotion regulation use and effectiveness

Puntos clave

• Effective emotion regulation significantly declines with higher rejection sensitivity, and it improves with advised strategies.
• Individuals with high rejection sensitivity report a notably lower success in utilizing emotion regulation techniques by 40%.
• Analysis of responses highlights the role of advice seeking in better managing emotional responses to social situations.
• These findings suggest that fostering advice-seeking behaviors could enhance emotion regulation effectiveness, especially for those sensitive to rejection.