Effects of Differential Strategies of Emotion Regulation
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Participants
2.2. Stimuli
2.3. Procedure
2.4. Psychophysiological and Electrocortical Recordings and Preprocessing
3. Results
3.1. Ratings of Arousal and Unpleasantness
3.2. Skin Conductance Response
3.3. EEG Data
3.4. Recognition Test
3.5. Effect of Anxiety and Proneness to Depression
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Mean | SD | Standard or Cut-Off Values | |
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age (years) | 22.10 | 5.13 | |
STAI-state | 36.10 | 4.94 | 33/34 a |
STAI-trait | 37.38 | 7.17 | 33/34 a |
BDI-II | 6.10 | 4.59 | ≤8 |
PSWQ | 43.07 | 8.40 | ≤50 |
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Boehme, S.; Biehl, S.C.; Mühlberger, A. Effects of Differential Strategies of Emotion Regulation. Brain Sci. 2019, 9, 225. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9090225
Boehme S, Biehl SC, Mühlberger A. Effects of Differential Strategies of Emotion Regulation. Brain Sciences. 2019; 9(9):225. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9090225
Chicago/Turabian StyleBoehme, Stephanie, Stefanie C. Biehl, and Andreas Mühlberger. 2019. "Effects of Differential Strategies of Emotion Regulation" Brain Sciences 9, no. 9: 225. https://doi.org/10.3390/brainsci9090225