To Regulate or Not to Regulate: Emotion Regulation in Participants With Low and High Impulsivity.

ABSTRACT: Successful emotion regulation plays a key role in psychological health and well-being. This study examines (1) whether cognitive control and corresponding neural connectivity are associated with emotion regulation and (2) to what extent external instructions can improve emotion regulation in individuals with low vs. high cognitive control capacity. For this, emotion regulation capabilities and the impact of emotion regulation on a subsequent emotional Stroop task was tested in participants with low (N = 25) vs. high impulsivity (N = 32). The classification according to impulsivity is based upon the stable correlation between high impulsivity and reduced cognitive control capacity. A negative emotion inducing movie scene was presented with the instruction to either suppress or

SUBMITTER: Maier MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8363082 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature