The literature suggests that individuals with higher levels of anxiety tend to take fewer risks. With the knowledge that there are positive risks that aid in everyday functioning, the decline in risk-taking by those with anxiety could be of concern. Reappraising anxiety as beneficial has been shown to increase subsequent performance on a variety of tasks. The purpose of this study was to examin...

objective: the present study aims to investigate thought control strategies in generalized anxiety disorder (gad), major depressive disorder (mdd), and the relationship of these metacognitive strategies with trait anxiety, as a construct of emotional vulnerability. methods: 60 patients with diagnosis of gad and mdd and 30 control subjects (nonpatients) were selected from the university students...

BACKGROUND Self-guided, Web-based interventions for depression show promising results but suffer from high attrition and low user engagement. Online peer support networks can be highly engaging, but they show mixed results and lack evidence-based content. OBJECTIVE Our aim was to introduce and evaluate a novel Web-based, peer-to-peer cognitive reappraisal platform designed to promote evidence...

Citation: Jiang H, Li S and Yang J (2018) Work Stress and Depressive Symptoms in Fishermen With a Smoking Habit: A Mediator Role of Nicotine Dependence and Possible Moderator Role of Expressive Suppression and Cognitive Reappraisal. Front. Psychol. 9:386. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00386 Work Stress and Depressive Symptoms in Fishermen With a Smoking Habit: A Mediator Role of Nicotine Dependence a...

Reappraisal is an emotion regulation strategy that has been linked to positive emotional and health outcomes. However, the basic cognitive mechanisms underlying effectiveness of reappraisal remain understudied not well understood. To address this limitation, present study examined whether long-term memory processes, including accessibility, bias, overgeneral memory, are related individual diffe...

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This study aims to explore the relationships between cognitive coping, goal disturbance and psychological distress in HIV-infected persons. A sample of 43 HIV positive persons completed questionnaires that assessed cognitive coping, goal frustration, depressive symptoms and quality of life. Goal frustration and, to a lesser extent, the cognitive coping strategy 'positive reappraisal' were relat...

Learning episodes are rife with emotional experiences, so it is critical that learners regulate negative affective states as they occur. In the present study, learners were instructed to use two forms of cognitive reappraisal to regulate negative emotions that arose during a one hour learning session. Our findings suggest that cognitive reappraisal is an effective strategy for regulating emotio...

This article reports differences across 23 countries on 2 processes of emotion regulation––reappraisal and suppression. Cultural dimensions were correlated with country means on both and the relationship between them. Cultures that emphasized the maintenance of social order––that is, those that were long-term oriented and valued embeddedness and hierarchy––tended to have higher scores on suppre...