Emotion Regulation: Social/Cultural Perspectives

Question 1

What does attachment and regulation look like in secure attachment? (Shaver & Mikuliner, 2007)

Answer 1

1. Sustains problem-solving
2. Sustains reappraisal efforts
3. Little need for suppression
   In general: maintains comfortable, supportive relationships; flexible coping

Question 2

What does attachment and regulation look like in avoidant attachment? (Shaver & Mikuliner, 2007)

Answer 2

1. Interferes with problem-solving and reappraisal
2. Often suppress emotions &/or their expressions
   In general: don’t understand their own emotions, inhibit any emotion in congruent with their goal of deactivating attachment system

Question 3

What does attachment and regulation look like in anxious attachment? (Shaver & Mikuliner, 2007)

Answer 3

1. Problem-solving becomes irrelevant - hopelessness, can’t do it on own
2. Shift attention towards threat/distress indicators- hyper vigilant to changes in body and physiological aspect of emotions
3. Negative thoughts/memories closely linked
4. Intensification vs. Suppression- intensify reactions, i.e., feeling good may not be the ultimate goal getting the attention is

Question 4

Why do people share positive emotions? (Rime, 2007)

Answer 4

Capitalization: positive things are being made more memorable by sharing with other person it becomes more salient and builds upon the memory

Question 5

What factors are needed for closure in interpersonal emotional regulation? (Rime, 2007)

Answer 5

1. Socioaffective needs: basic comfort and support from other people
2. Cognitive needs: persons need to organize what happened to them, might involve reappraisal, recreate meaning from even so able to move forward
3. Action needs: concrete help, perform certain action, doing something is often required for full emotion recovery

Question 6

What were the major findings of Butler, Lee, & Gross (2007) study on Emotional Suppression?

Answer 6

1. Habitual supression used less frequently by those endorsing Western European values (vs. bi cultural Asian-European values)
2. Suppression positively correlated with self-protective social goals, among those with European values
3. Suppression was negatively correlated with self-protected social goals, among those with bi cultural values.
4. Individuals who had stronger European values the greater the suppression associated with more negative emotions