TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2014//
TI  - Choosing how to feel: emotion regulation choice in bipolar disorder
JO  - Emotion
A1  - Hay, Aleena C.
A1  - Sheppes, Gal
A1  - Gross, James J.
A1  - Gruber, June
SP  - 139
EP  - 145
VL  - 15
IS  - 2
N2  - Individuals with bipolar disorder experience emotion regulation difficulties, even during remission, but are able to effectively employ emotion regulation strategies when instructed. We hypothesized that this puzzling discrepancy might be due to their maladaptive emotion regulation choices. To test this hypothesis, we used a previously validated paradigm (Sheppes, Scheibe, Suri, & Gross, 2011; Sheppes et al., 2014), and asked remitted individuals with bipolar I disorder (n = 25) and healthy individuals (n = 26) to view standardized positive and negative images of high and low intensity, and choose reappraisal or distraction to decrease their emotion intensity. Replicating and extending prior results, participants across both groups showed a pattern of choosing distraction more for high versus low intensity positive and negative images, but no between-groups differences were evident. These results suggest that emotion regulation choice patterns may be robust across samples, and add to growing evidence that several basic emotion regulation elements may remain intact in bipolar disorder. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2014 APA, all rights reserved).<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1528-3542
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/emo0000024
ID  - ref1
ER  -