Reduced emotion regulatory selection flexibility in post-traumatic stress disorder: converging performance-based evidence from two PTSD populations
Abstract
Contemporary views of emotion dysregulation in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) highlight reduced ability to flexibly select regulatory strategies according to differing situational demands. However, empirical evidence of reduced regulatory selection flexibility in PTSD is lacking. Multiple studies show that healthy individuals demonstrate regulatory selection flexibility manifested in selecting attentional disengagement regulatory strategies (e.g. distraction) in high-intensity emotional contexts and selecting engagement meaning change strategies (e.g. reappraisal) in low-intensity contexts. Accordingly, we hypothesized that PTSD populations will show reduced regulatory selection flexibility manifested in diminished increase in distraction (over reappraisal) preference as intensity increases from low to high intensity.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Pub Defense Publication
- Publication Date
- Nov 29, 2021
- Source ID
- 10.1017/s0033291721004670
Entities
People
- Daphna Bardin Armon
- Gal Sheppes
- Liat Helpman
- Miki Bloch
- Naomi B Fine
- Noa Ben-aharon
- Talma Hendler
- Zivya Seligman
Organizations
- Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
- Israel Science Foundation
- United States Department of Defense