Paraschiv, Christiana (2023) Fighting Your Sadness: Does Desiring Emotional Control Affect Emotional Inertia and Rumination? Bachelor thesis, Psychology.
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Abstract
Existing emotion literature highlighted the existence and implications of maladaptive emotion dynamics such as emotional inertia and rumination. Identifying individual differences associated with such cognitive, behavioral and emotional patterns could shed light onto potential prevention strategies and protective factors. The current study assessed whether differences in control beliefs correlate with emotional inertia and rumination. We hypothesized that individuals who desire heightened emotional control, while also being unsatisfied with their perceived control levels, would experience (1a) the most emotional inertia of sad affect from one moment to the next, (1b) the most inertia of negative affect over one day, as well as (2) the most emotion-related rumination out of all participant groups. One hundred thirteen participants answered self-report questionnaire items concerning the variables of interest. In the case of moment-level emotional inertia, a significant interaction effect between desired emotional control and control discrepancies was found. The relationship direction contradicted our predictions, with participants low on desired control, but high on discrepancy, experiencing the most moment-level inertia. Predictions that desired emotional control would influence rumination or day-level emotional inertia were not supported, due to nonsignificance. However, heightened control discrepancies were consistently linked to increased moment- and day-level inertia. Further research could investigate the role of control beliefs in inertia and rumination by better distinguishing between balanced and maladaptive manifestations of these emotion dynamics.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Bachelor) |
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| Supervisor name: | Ernst, A.F. |
| Degree programme: | Psychology |
| Differentiation route: | None [Bachelor Psychology] |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2023 10:42 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Feb 2023 10:42 |
| URI: | http://gmwpublic.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/1661 |
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