Vandekerckhove, Marie, Kestemont, Jenny, Weiss, Rolf, Schotte, Chris ORCID: 0000-0003-3674-3626, Exadaktylos, Vasilis, Haex, Bart, Verbraecken, Johan and Gross, James J. (2012). Experiential Versus Analytical Emotion Regulation and Sleep: Breaking the Link Between Negative Events and Sleep Disturbance. Emotion, 12 (6). S. 1415 - 1422. WASHINGTON: AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC. ISSN 1528-3542

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Abstract

Despite a long history of interest in emotion regulation as well as in the mechanisms that regulate sleep, the relationship between emotion regulation and sleep is not yet well understood. The present study investigated whether an experiential approach-defined by coping through affectively acknowledging, understanding, and expressing actual emotional experience and affective feeling about a situation-compared with a cognitive analytical approach-defined by the cognitive analysis of the causes, meanings and implications of the situation for the own self-would buffer the impact of an emotional failure experience on (1) emotional experience and (2) sleep structure assessed by EEG polysomnography. Twenty-eight healthy volunteers participated in this study. A direct comparison of the two emotion regulation strategies revealed that participants who were instructed to apply an experiential approach showed less fragmentation of sleep than participants who were instructed to apply an analytical approach. The use of an experiential approach resulted in a longer sleep time, higher sleep efficiency, fewer awakenings, less % time awake, and fewer minutes wake after sleep onset. Implications of the differential effects of these two forms of emotion regulation on sleep are discussed.

Item Type: Journal Article
Creators:
CreatorsEmailORCIDORCID Put Code
Vandekerckhove, MarieUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Kestemont, JennyUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Weiss, RolfUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Schotte, ChrisUNSPECIFIEDorcid.org/0000-0003-3674-3626UNSPECIFIED
Exadaktylos, VasilisUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Haex, BartUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Verbraecken, JohanUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
Gross, James J.UNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIEDUNSPECIFIED
URN: urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-477120
DOI: 10.1037/a0028501
Journal or Publication Title: Emotion
Volume: 12
Number: 6
Page Range: S. 1415 - 1422
Date: 2012
Publisher: AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
Place of Publication: WASHINGTON
ISSN: 1528-3542
Language: English
Faculty: Unspecified
Divisions: Unspecified
Subjects: no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:
KeywordsLanguage
COGNITIVE REAPPRAISAL; COPING STYLE; LIFE EVENT; SELF-FOCUS; STRESS; RUMINATION; QUALITY; VALIDATION; EXPRESSION; DEPRESSIONMultiple languages
Psychology, ExperimentalMultiple languages
URI: http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/47712

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