Emotion Regulation and the Anxiety Disorders: An Integrative Review

By Josh M. Cisler, B. Olatunji, M. Feldner, Jphn P. Forsyth. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment, 2010

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The construct of emotion regulation has been increasingly investigated in the last decade, and this work has important implications for advancing anxiety disorder theory. This paper reviews research demonstrating that: 1) emotion (i.e., fear and anxiety) and emotion regulation are distinct, non-redundant, constructs that can be differentiated at the conceptual, behavioral, and neural levels of analysis; 2) emotion regulation can augment or diminish fear, depending on the emotion regulation strategy employed; and 3) measures of emotion regulation explain incremental variance in anxiety disorder symptoms above and beyond the variance explained by measures of emotional reactivity. The authors propose a model by which emotion regulation may function in the etiology of anxiety disorders. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research.

Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Citations in the corpus

• Defensive reactions to health-promoting information: an overview and implications for future research (2013, background): “While such laboratory studies can teach us a lot about the effects of different defensive strategies, they usually examine the direct emotional consequences of emotion regulation techniques and therefore cannot address the long-term consequences of habitual use of a given emotion regulation strate”
• EMOTION DYSREGULATION MODEL OF MOOD AND ANXIETY DISORDERS (2012, background): “A more comprehensive review of the empirical literature on emotion regulation is provided elsewhere.[7, 8]”