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Repression has been defined as the tendency to inhibit—consciously or unconsciously—the experience and expression of negative emotions or unpleasant cognitions in order to prevent one’s positive self-image from being threatened.
- Effects of Suppression on Different Emotions
- Effects of Suppression in Depression
- Strengths, Limitations, and Future Directions
Theoretically, these results improve our understanding of emotion suppression across sadness and anxiety. It is possible that attempting to suppress sadness may not have detrimental effects for any individuals, as all participants in our study recovered from sadness in the same way (in effect, supporting a null hypothesis for the effects of suppres...
Results of this study improve our clinical understanding of suppressing sadness and anxiety for those with depressive symptoms and may inform targets for cognitive-behavioral interventions. There may have been no differences in the effects of suppression on sadness because depressed participants have shown no difference in reactivity to sad stimuli...
There are limitations to our study that suggest directions for future research. First, the difference in type of induction methods between sadness and anxiety could have created differences in participant responding above and beyond pure effects that suppression might yield (i.e., a passive task of viewing a film-clip versus a more active task of g...
- Matthew Boland, Anthony Papa, Elysia Oliver, Robert del Carlo
- 2019
The literature demonstrates a mediating role of emotional regulation in the development of depression and physical illness. Literature suggests in fact that the employment of adaptive emotional regulation strategies (e.g., reappraisal) causes a reduction of stress-elicited emotions leading to physical disorders.
Jan 22, 2015 · Expressive suppression may have no effect on negative emotional experience (Egloff et al. 2006; Gross and Levenson 1993), may be effective for reducing negative feelings (Webb et al. 2012), or may even increase negative affect (Brans et al. 2013).
- Fay C. M. Geisler, Michela Schröder-Abé
- 2015
Jun 18, 2019 · In the present pair of studies (468 participants total), we used real-time experience sampling data to examine the effect of naturally occurring suppression of negative emotion at one moment on subsequent reports of both negative and positive emotion.
- Yan Ruan, Harry T. Reis, Wojciech Zareba, Richard D. Lane
- 2020
Feb 12, 2019 · Further, reliance on the concealment of unpleasant emotions and feelings leads to repression (Patel and Patel 2019), emotional exhaustion (Chiang et al. 2021), and apathy, which can inhibit ...
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Although depressive symptoms improve, emotion regulation difficulties may continue, and could be a contributing factor to relapse. Our findings inform future research on emotion regulation and psychotherapeutic interventions.
