Talk:Emotional self-regulation

In non-humans

Might be interesting to include non-human, possibly self-soothing, behaviors (e.g. cats purring and cleaning themselves).--TyrS (talk) 06:59, 1 January 2011 (UTC)

Health implications of ER strategies

This article already mentions the importance of a healthy ER. But I think this needs to be elaborated on a little more. I think a new heading that talks about the health implications of emotion regulation would be a helpful - I feel this issue is important enough to have it's own heading. What are the consequences for using a healthy ER strategy (i.e. cognitive reappraisal) versus a less healthy ER strategy (i.e., suppression). Cognitive reappraisal has been shown to increase subjective, physiological and experience negative affect. It has also been shown to reduce rumination of negative thoughts and reduce depression. On the other hand, the suppression of emotions can lead to many negative health consequences such as cardiovascular, respiratory disorders, gastrointestinal disorders, etc.

I think it's important to make the distinction here because certain types of emotion self-regulation can be quite beneficial, while others can be deleterious. Majobc11 (talk) 22:28, 1 March 2012 (UTC)

Objectivity / Alternative views

Whilst being a term I am not fully aquainted with, the article certainly strikes the tone of expounding a particular point of view (or prevailing tendency) , without strictly explaining or identifying either alternate views, the origin (academically) of the term or specific critiques within its individual subheadings. I take the the view that while appearing fairly comprehenhensive and certainly outside my areas of expertise, the article appears to lack objectivity. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.145.32.111 (talk) 22:32, 5 March 2012 (UTC)

I agree. I'm a little more familiar with this field and the author is not interpreting the research objectively. For example, stating that certain reappraisal strategies are "better" than others is unreasonable because in some situations an individual doesn't have a choice about which reappraisal strategies are available to them. It's fair to talk about the outcomes of each of the strategies, but it is not objective to say that one is "better" than the other. Majobc11 (talk) 03:26, 8 March 2012 (UTC)

Psych 2410A at Kings 2012

I have decided to edit this article for Psych 2410A at Kings 2012. Rwaring58 (talk) 02:18, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Welcome! I'll be following you and help if you need it. Lova Falk talk 18:20, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Welcome from me too! It needs it. See my comment to Lova Falk (User_talk:Lova_Falk#Emotional_self-regulation). James James 173 (talk) 18:50, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

Thank you both for welcoming me here. This is my first time editing/adding to a wikipedia article, so your feedback and/or advice will be most welcome. I think I must first clear up that I will not (at least over the time frame of the course I am doing this for) be able to edit and/or change everything in this article that requires improvement (there seem to be many of these areas, and I am a busy student). The areas that I do hope to work on/improve (for the time being) are as follows: 1) I plan to add information from the Journal Article: "The Miniaturization of Expression in the Development of Emotional Self-Regulation" (Author: Manfred Holodynski, Date: Jan. 2004). In brief, this article looks at the development of expression miniaturization in solitary conditions among children aged 6-8. 2) I wish to try and add in some information on how types of self-regulation can differ across cultures (as that seems to be lacking in the current article). 3) I plan on (to the best of my abilities) making the formatting of the article easier to follow (right now it just seems like a bunch a paragraphs have been thrown together, resulting in an article that flows poorly). This formatting may include the editing of sections to make them read better, the trimming down of sections that are too long (some of the sections seem to take up way too much space for the information they provide), and changes to some of the headings (so that they better describe what is in the sections). Feel free to suggest other specific areas for me to try and tackle (hopefully I will have the time for them) Rwaring58 (talk) 01:44, 4 October 2012 (UTC)

I have finished the edits that will be part of my class project on this page. These edits included the description of Holodynski's experiment, the retitling of "Scherbatykh's experiment" to "Self-Regulation of Emotional Stress", along with a rewrite of that section and its movement to a different part of the article. The final change was the addition of a few pieces of information about the development of emotional self-regulation in early childhood. (As you can probably see, not all of these changes were what I laid out in the above text). As far as these changes go, feel free to comment about their applicability and on whether or not you feel they made the article better. This was an interesting topic (and an interesting first experience with wikipedia) and hopefully, this article is a little bit better now than when I first started adding to it Rwaring58 (talk) 03:16, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Merging "Emotional self-regulation" and "Regulation of emotion" pages

I stumbled across these two articles and feel they both ought to be merged.98.202.242.112 (talk) 03:00, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

• Support I agree that they are two articles about basically the same thing. However, merging them will not be an easy job. Do you feel like doing it? I can assist you along the way. Start with putting merger proposal templates to the very top of each involved page, which is step II described in Wikipedia:Merging#Proposing_a_merger. Then wait to see if any others support or oppose the merging of the articles. You can invite major contributors to articles to participate. Please let me know if you have any questions! Lova Falk talk 10:07, 1 March 2013 (UTC)

• Support I don't mind taking this on, since I was about to give this page a good going over for the GOCE AnthonyW90 (talk) 09:47, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Psychology EXP4005L at Florida International University recommendations

We recommend to make the following edits to the article. First we would like to change the title of the article to emotion regulation because this is what is seen in the majority of the literature. We are restructuring the first paragraph in a way that is more understandable and more objective. We are adding new citations and deleting some sentences that do not have any. Finally in this section and the others we are adding hyperlinks to related wiki articles. We propose to change the importance section to social interactions. In this new section we will delete the paragraphs that are biased and have no citations, and new paragraphs that with objective empirical support. Finally we recommend adding a new section on the neural basis of emotion regulation. We intend to include this research as part of the article and demonstrate that there is a physiological concept in addition to cognitive and social aspects.

DoktorGil (talk) 13:35, 11 March 2013 (UTC)DoktorGil

Hi DoktorGil and welcome!

• Please don't change the name without making a proposal (and maybe inviting major contributors to this article to state their opinion). For instance, here you can see how this was done in another article.
• Adding new citations is always a very good thing. However, please remember that Wikipedia is not an academic paper or essay. Wikipedia articles should not be based on WP:primary sources, but on reliable, published secondary sources (for instance, journal reviews and professional or advanced academic textbooks) and, to a lesser extent, on tertiary sources (such as undergraduate textbooks). WP:MEDRS describes how to identify reliable sources for medical information, which is a good guideline for many psychology articles as well.
• I am looking forward to reading the new section on the neural basis of emotion regulation!

With friendly regards, Lova Falk talk 15:52, 11 March 2013 (UTC)

I have added a section on the neural basis of emotion regulation. This primarily is concerned with the various brain structures that have been found to be activated in fMRI simultaneously while emotion is regulated.

Lifevolt (talk) 22:59, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

Edited the first half of the introduction that was proposed earlier. Dhuston (talk) 15:42, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

Changed the importance section to social interactions to have a more neutral tone and secondary references as proposed earlier. Bredybryan (talk) 16:03, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

What do you guys think about the merging of the two articles, as suggested in the section above? AnthonyW90 (talk) 09:47, 28 March 2013 (UTC)

Title Change Proposal

As stated previously in Talk, "emotion regulation" is the term used most often in the literature. As very crude evidence, Google Scholar shows 502,000 results for the term "emotion regulation" and 134,000 results for "emotional self-regulation." Additionally, PsycInfo shows 4,859 results for "emotion regulation" and only 343 results for "emotional self-regulation." Consequently, I want to propose that the title be changed to "Emotion Regulation." Slyons123 (talk) 01:51, 29 June 2013 (UTC)

Organization and Improvements

With my spare time, I'm going to try to start reorganizing this article. To say the least, the layout is very confusing, some of the writing requires re-writing, and I'm not entirely certain that all of the information presented is relevant or useful. Not to mention, there has been an explosion of emotion regulation research in just the past decade, and very little of this research is presented here. If anyone has any suggestions about how to organize this article or about including certain topics, please share them!

Update: I've added a Theory and Strategies section. My next plan is to organize and add to the Development section. Other plans:

• Add section(s) about mental health (putatively adaptive & maladaptive strategies/psychological flexibility/sleep) and psychopathology (emotion dysregulation in MDD, anxiety disorders, BD, etc.)
• Add a section about emotion regulation in psychological treatment (e.g., emotion regulation therapy, CBT, DBT, mindfulness)
• Add a section about methods used to study emotion regulation and current issues in this area
• Add a section about interpersonal emotion regulation (linking to the current IER article or petitioning to combine the two)
• Add a section about emotion regulation and culture
• Expand the Neural Basis section

Deletion of more of the current information is probably warranted, or at least its reorganization is. This may include the following sections

• Get rid of #Affect
• Move #Affective chronometry to #Methods
• Get rid of or move #Effects of low self-regulation and #In agitated states (also #Self-regulation of emotional distress) and replace with or integrate into #Psychopathology
• Rewrite #Social Interactions as #Interpersonal (with lots of new information) and find a separate spot for #Decision making
• The first definition of emotion regulation provided in the intro is very specific. The second definition provided is much broader and, to my knowledge, is used much more often in the literature than the first. Therefore, the order of presentation should probably be reversed. Moreover, the fact that emotion regulation can be effortful or automatic should be included in the second definition. Beyond this, the intro may still require clean-up.

Please let me know if anyone objects to these changes. Slyons123 (talk) 22:03, 8 July 2013 (UTC)

For adding later to the article

External links

• The power of vulnerability — Preceding unsigned comment added by 117.241.23.48 (talk) 20:18, 20 May 2016 (UTC)

Merger proposal

I propose that Regulation of emotion be merged into Emotional self-regulation. They seem to cover the same the same topic, but Emotional self-regulation appears to be a more mature article. Dr.enh (talk) 15:16, 10 November 2017 (UTC)