Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya.
Institute of Psychology, Leiden University.
Emotion. 2019 Jun;19(4):593-604. doi: 10.1037/emo0000461. Epub 2018 Jun 28.
Individuals encounter a variety of emotional challenges daily, with optimal emotion modulation requiring adaptive choice among available means of regulation. However, individuals differ in the ability to flexibly and adaptively move between engaging and disengaging emotion regulation (ER) strategies as per contextual demands, referred to as regulatory choice flexibility. Greater regulatory choice flexibility is associated with greater mental health, well-being and resilience, warranting the development of interventions to increase such flexibility. We hypothesized that a mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) program would fulfill this goal. To test our hypothesis, we recruited college students to either participate in an 8-week MBSR workshop or join a waiting list for a later workshop (i.e., control participants). After the workshop's completion, all participants were invited to the laboratory and completed several computerized tasks examining their regulatory choice flexibility when exposed to universally emotion-laden stimuli as well as stimuli specifically related to the students' social and political environment. The regulatory choice patterns of participants who underwent MBSR training were found to be more flexible than those of participants who had not yet completed the workshop, with the former more likely than the latter to favor an engaging ER strategy (i.e., reappraisal) when faced with low-intensity stimuli and a disengaging strategy (i.e., distraction) when faced with high-intensity stimuli. The findings' importance is discussed. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved).
个体每天都会遇到各种情绪挑战，而最佳的情绪调节需要根据可用的调节手段在适应性选择之间进行。然而，个体在根据情境需求灵活和适应性地在参与和不参与情绪调节（ER）策略之间转换的能力上存在差异，这种能力被称为调节选择灵活性。更大的调节选择灵活性与更好的心理健康、幸福感和适应力相关，因此需要开发干预措施来增加这种灵活性。我们假设基于正念的减压（MBSR）计划将实现这一目标。为了检验我们的假设，我们招募了大学生参加为期 8 周的 MBSR 研讨会或加入稍后研讨会的候补名单（即对照组参与者）。研讨会结束后，所有参与者都被邀请到实验室，并完成了几项计算机任务，这些任务考察了他们在接触普遍带有情绪的刺激物以及与学生的社会和政治环境相关的刺激物时的调节选择灵活性。接受 MBSR 培训的参与者的调节选择模式比尚未完成研讨会的参与者更灵活，前者更有可能在面对低强度刺激时选择参与性 ER 策略（即重新评估），而后者在面对高强度刺激时更有可能选择非参与性策略（即分心）。讨论了研究结果的重要性。（PsycINFO 数据库记录（c）2019 APA，保留所有权利）。
