The cost of believing emotions are uncontrollable: Youths’ beliefs about emotion predict emotion regulation and depressive symptoms.

Brett Q. Ford; Sandy J. Lwi; Amy L. Gentzler; Benjamin L. Hankin; Iris B. Mauss

doi:10.1037/xge0000396

April 5, 2018Journal of Experimental Psychology GeneralOpen Access

The cost of believing emotions are uncontrollable: Youths’ beliefs about emotion predict emotion regulation and depressive symptoms.

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Investigate how beliefs about the controllability of emotions influence emotion regulation strategies and depressive symptoms in youth.
Conducted a pilot diary study with 223 participants aged 21-60 to link entity beliefs to emotion regulation strategies.
Completed a cross-sectional study with 136 youths aged 14-18 to examine the relationship between entity beliefs and depressive symptoms.
Administered a longitudinal study with 227 participants aged 10-18, measuring beliefs and depressive symptoms over 18 months.
In the diary study, participants with stronger entity beliefs used reappraisal less frequently (p<0.05).
In the cross-sectional study, youths with stronger entity beliefs reported greater depressive symptoms, mediated by lower reappraisal (p<0.01).
The longitudinal study replicated these findings, showing that more profound entity beliefs at baseline predicted higher depressive symptoms 18 months later (p<0.01).

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Pilot and longitudinal studies reveal that believing emotions are uncontrollable predicts poorer emotion regulation and higher depressive symptoms in youth.

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Ford et al. (2018) studied this question.

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