Faculty of Psychology and Neuroscience, Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion Regulation (ICPE), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), University Center Psychiatry (UCP), Groningen, The Netherlands.
PLoS One. 2020 Mar 11;15(3):e0230102. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0230102. eCollection 2020.
As emotion regulation deficits have been implicated in psychotic disorders, it is imperative to investigate not only the effect of regulation strategies but also how they are used. One such strategy is expressive suppression, the inhibition of emotion-expressive behavior, which may be influenced by social context. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate whether the use of expressive suppression was associated with social context and affect in daily life and if this differed between patients with psychosis and controls. Multilevel models using experience sampling method (ESM) data of 34 patients with psychotic disorders and 53 controls from the Genetic Risk and Outcome in Psychosis (GROUP) project were conducted. Expressive suppression and social context were assessed once a day for six days and daily affect was averaged per participant per day. Social context was significantly associated with the use of expressive suppression in daily life, so that the use of expressive suppression differed when in the presence of familiar versus non-familiar company when receiving negative feedback. This finding did not differ between patients and controls. This demonstrates that taking the situation into account when studying expressive suppression, and emotion regulation in general, may improve our understanding of how regulation takes place.
由于情绪调节缺陷与精神病障碍有关，因此不仅必须研究调节策略的效果，还必须研究它们的使用方式。一种这样的策略是表达抑制，即抑制情绪表达行为，而这种行为可能受到社会环境的影响。因此，本研究旨在调查表达抑制的使用是否与日常生活中的社会环境和情绪有关，以及精神病患者和对照组之间是否存在差异。该研究使用精神病遗传风险和结局研究（GROUP）项目中 34 名精神病患者和 53 名对照的经验抽样法（ESM）数据，采用多层次模型进行分析。每天评估一次表达抑制和社会环境，每天为每位参与者计算平均日常情绪。社会环境与日常生活中表达抑制的使用显著相关，因此，在收到负面反馈时，与熟悉的人还是不熟悉的人在一起会影响表达抑制的使用。这一发现在患者和对照组之间没有差异。这表明，在研究表达抑制以及一般的情绪调节时，考虑到具体情况可能会增进我们对调节发生方式的理解。
