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Investigating The Effect of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Positive Affect on Momentary Resilience Using Experience Sampling
Sorgenfrei, Lara (2023) Investigating The Effect of Interpersonal Emotion Regulation and Positive Affect on Momentary Resilience Using Experience Sampling.
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| Abstract: | Worldwide, the numbers of experienced distress are increasing, this leads to further health problems, but also increases the future risk of developing pathologies. Even if resilience was detected as a psychological protective buffer against stress earlier, little is known about the factors that underlie resilience in daily life. Momentary resilience was therefore investigated using the experience sampling method (ESM). Over seven days, momentary resilience was measured ten times a day in terms of affective recovery. In order to gain more in-depth knowledge about momentary resilience in daily life, the effect of interpersonal emotion regulation (IER) was investigated on the affective recovery of positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). IER showed to have a significant positive effect on the recovery of PA, but not on the recovery of negative affect (NA). However, via self-assessment, participants indicated that they perceived a decreasing NA and increasing PA after using IER. Following the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, PA was additionally measured as an interaction effect on the use of IER strategies in affective recovery. Hereby, no effect could be measured. In summary, it can be concluded that IER has an important influence on the overcoming of adversity in everyday life. This could be confirmed especially for the recovery of PA. Since PA has been identified as being a predictor of access to the thought action repertoire earlier, a good basis for future research and interventions could be built. |
| 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/95370 |
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