the aim of this study was to compare the intensity of pre-competition emotion in athletes with type a and b behavior patterns. out of 108 wrestlers participating in iranian national championships (2005), 32 wrestlers were selected as subjects by global bortner scale. then, 16 subjects with high scores (mean 6.45±0.31) formed type a athletes group and 16 with low scores (mean 3.69 ± 0.47) were c...

The ability to adaptively exert control over negative emotions is associated with beneficial mental health outcomes. Less is known about the associated emotional sequelae surrounding controllable versus uncontrollable positive emotional experiences. The ability to harness positive emotions is of particular importance in populations involving disrupted positive emotion functioning. In the presen...

Does emotional intelligence promote behavior that strictly benefits the greater good, or can it also advance interpersonal deviance? In the investigation reported here, we tested the possibility that a core facet of emotional intelligence--emotion-regulation knowledge--can promote both prosocial and interpersonally deviant behavior. Drawing from research on how the effective regulation of emoti...

Risk-taking has an important role in human’s life, either positive or negative. Thus, finding a method to control or drive this in a particular way could affect individuals and communities’ health by discouraging negative risks such as reckless driving or encouraging positive risks. Emotion induction is one of the methods that can enhance or reinforce risk-taking according to the perceived emot...

objective: the purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship of psychological wellbeing with variables of mindfulness and emotion regulation strategies, and then to identify which one predicts better psychological well-being. methods: we used a descriptive-analytical design for this study. a total of 243 students from 3 tehran universities were selected using the convenience samplin...

introducation: emotion regulation and thought-action fusion (taf) are among the most important components which cause psychological disorders. the present study aimed to predict somatoform disorder regarding the emotion regulation and taf in female students of the savadkuh county. methods:   in this descriptive correlation study, 110 middle school female students in the city of savadkuh in the ...

abstract aim and background: according to role of cognitive - emotion regulation in control of positive and negative emotions, the purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between cognitive- emotion regulation and anxiety disorders in child and adolescent. methods and materials:the method of this study was applied.240 participants of child and adolescent (154 male and 83 female) ...

OBJECTIVES Previous research demonstrates that younger and older adults prefer distraction over engagement (reappraisal) when regulating high-intensity negative emotion. Older adults also demonstrate a greater bias for positive over negative information in attention and memory compared with younger adults. In this study, we investigated whether emotion regulation choice preferences may differ a...

Cooperation is central to human existence, forming the bedrock of everyday social relationships and larger societal structures. Thus, understanding the psychological underpinnings of cooperation is of both scientific and practical importance. Recent work using a dual-process framework suggests that intuitive processing can promote cooperation while deliberative processing can undermine it. Here...