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Effectiveness of different emotion regulation strategies on stress recovery of students : an experienced sampling study
Nipper, W.S. (2022) Effectiveness of different emotion regulation strategies on stress recovery of students : an experienced sampling study.
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| Abstract: | Constant high stress levels can lead to severe impairments of physical and mental health of people. This holds especially true for people whose stress recovery is prolonged. Emotion regulation strategies can influence the recovery of stress positively or negatively. The strategy of reappraisal has a positive influence on recovery, whereas expressive suppression and rumination have a negative influence. As the effectiveness of these three emotion regulation strategies on affective recovery is still understudied, the current study investigated the effectiveness of reappraisal, expressive suppression, and rumination on the recovery of daily stressors. To test this, an ESM study was conducted with a sample of 26 students, who completed ten questionnaires per day for six consecutive days. A multilevel analysis showed non-significant relationships between reappraisal and stress recovery, expressive suppression and stress recovery, and rumination and stress recovery. Further investigating the effect of the three emotion regulation strategies on stress reactivity, a post-hoc analysis showed a significant relationship between expressive suppression and stress reactivity B = -0.06, SE = 0.02, t(643) = -2.27, p = .023, and rumination and stress reactivity B = 0.10, SE = 0.02, t(650) = 3.70, p < .001. In conclusion the study suggests that none of the three emotion regulation strategies has an influence on the recovery from daily life stressors in students. This could be due to a low intensity daily stress which creates such a low negative affect that the strategies have no impact on the recovery, because there is not much to cope with or because of a too long recovery period. |
| Item Type: | Essay (Bachelor) |
| Faculty: | BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences |
| Subject: | 77 psychology |
| Programme: | Psychology BSc (56604) |
| Link to this item: | https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/91564 |
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