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June 3, 2021Clinical Psychological ScienceOpen Access

Digital Technologies for Emotion-Regulation Assessment and Intervention: A Conceptual Review

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ABAlexandra H. BettisVanderbilt University Medical CenterTBTaylor A. BurkeBroad InstituteJNJacqueline NesiBrown University

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Implication

Conceptual review demonstrates digital tools capture dynamic emotion regulation across daily contexts, highlighting novel opportunities for personalized mental health interventions.

Key Points

  • Synthesize how emerging digital technologies assess dynamic, context-sensitive emotion regulation and evaluate their translation into real-time mental health interventions.
  • Conducted a conceptual review evaluating digital modalities, including ecological momentary assessment, smartphone platforms, and wearable sensors.
  • Assessed passive and active data streams such as physical activity, acoustic markers, visual features, geolocation, smart home sensors, virtual reality, and social media platforms.
  • Analyzed implementation hurdles, data privacy constraints, and ethical considerations surrounding continuous emotional tracking.
  • Digital tools transition emotion-regulation assessment away from static self-reports toward continuous, ecologically valid, and context-aware dynamic modeling.
  • Sensor streams and immersive platforms like virtual reality enable just-in-time adaptive interventions tailored to real-world stressors.
  • Clinical adoption remains limited by algorithmic accuracy, user privacy concerns, data governance issues, and the need for standard ethical frameworks.

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Bettis et al. (2021) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a0a4a6b085a561e3bb4e688https://doi.org/10.1177/21677026211011982
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