The consequences of effortful emotion regulation when processing distressing material: A comparison of suppression and acceptance

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 47, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 761-773

  Dunn, Barnaby D ^a   Billotti, Danielle ^b   Murphy, Vicky ^a   Dalgleish, Tim ^a  

^a MRC COGNITION AND BRAIN SCIENCES UNIT   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acceptance; Emotion; Emotion regulation; Intrusions; Memory; Suppression

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECELERATION; ELECTRODERMAL RESPONSE; EMOTIONAL STRESS; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MEMORY; MOOD; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RECALL; SELF REPORT; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIDEOTAPE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFFECT; AGED; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GALVANIC SKIN RESPONSE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CONTROL, INFORMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67949089547     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2009.05.007     Document Type: Article

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